Private player to run Rajawadi dialysis centre
Mumbai: In keeping with its plan to outsource diagnostic tools and similar operations in its hospitals, the BMC is set to allow a private agency to run the dialysis centre at Rajawadi
Hospital in Ghatkopar. A proposal to this effect will be brought before the civic improvements committee on Wednesday. Ironically, on the same day, the BMC will also bring in a proposal stating its intention to go back on its much-controversial plan to allow a private trust to conduct MRI scans at two of the major hospitals. The BMCs proposal for Rajawadi, which is on the same lines as the MRI proposal, states that the managing director of NGO Red Swastik Society offered to start a dialysis centre at Rajawadi.
The BMC has already earmarked a newly-constructed 1,500 sq ft structure in the hospital for the centre. The NGO will have to put in place 5 units of kidney dialysis with a standby arrangement of two machines. The agency will invest about Rs 30 lakh for the project, which includes a sum of Rs 5,000 that will be paid each month to the BMC. It will earn a sizable profit as the BMC will allow them to run the centre for a period of ten years. While three of the five beds in the centre would be reserved for municipal patients who will be charged Rs 250 per dialysis, two of the beds can be used for private patients who will be charged Rs 450. These charges will be in addition to the cost of the dialysis kits, which have to be incurred by the patients. At present, the facility is available only in the three major hospitals Sion, Nair and KEM. All three put together are able to take the load of 50 to 60 patients each day.
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