Three more dialysis machines — donated by Ambalal Trust at a total cost of Rs. 25 lakh — were inaugurated by K. Jawarilal Jain, Managing Trustee of the trust and his mother and trustee Badal Bai at the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (GVMCH) in Adukkamparai near here on Wednesday.

Dr. Sithy Athiya Munavarah, Dean of GVMCH told newspersons that with the commissioning of these three machines, the dialysis unit of the hospital is equipped with five machines, the first two having been purchased with the sanction of Rs. 16 lakh by Anaicut MLA M. Kalaiarasu under the Constituency Development Fund.

She said that 332 patient cycles were completed by the first two machines. While four patients are currently undergoing dialysis with the first two machines, another six can undergo dialysis with the three new machines.

Patients with snake bites and complicated deliveries can also undergo dialysis now, she said.

Mr. Kalaiarasu said that a renal transplantation (RT) unit would soon be ready in the hospital. He has already allotted a sum of Rs. 25 lakh under the CDF for Anaicut Constituency. Work on the modification of a building for the accommodation of the RT unit was in progress, he said.

Mr. Jawarilal Jain said that the Ambalal Trust planned to donate a dialysis machine to the Government Hospital in Gudiyatham in association with the Rotary Club of Gudiyatham.

He appealed to philanthropists, individuals and organisations to come forward to donate dialysis machines to government hospitals for the benefit of the poor patients.

Trust plans to donate a dialysis machine to the Government Hospital in Gudiyatham in association with the Rotary Club

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