GUJRAT: The first consignment of 16 dialysis machines has reached the Gujrat Kidney Centre while more machines will be delivered within a few days.

Each dialysis machine costs Rs1 million while a German company given a contract for supplying and installing these machines has so far been paid Rs25m. A latest electronic lift, having a capacity enough to carry a bed to shift a patient on the first and second floors, is also being installed at a cost of Rs3m.

An official at the kidney centre said that 25 beds had also been procured while around 700-foot deep bore was being dug for the clean water to be supplied to run the dialysis machines.

A project of the public-private partnership, the kidney centre is being established in the downtown along Circular Road on a piece of land donated to the Red Crescent Society by a local philanthropist woman.

A sum of Rs70m has so far been spent on the project which was donated by local philanthropists while around Rs20m more are required for its completion.

Published in Dawn October 29th, 2016