PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

About:

• Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for kidney failure that uses the lining of your abdomen, or belly, to filter your blood inside your body. Health care providers call this lining the peritoneum.
  
  
• Peritoneal dialysis is a process to remove excess fluid, correct electrolyte problems and remove toxins using the lining of the abdomen, or peritoneum, in patients suffering from renal failure. 
  
  
• This process does away with the substantial costs of infrastructure, maintenance and staffing, reduces the demand on the healthcare system and offers patient autonomy. 
  
  

Recent Guidelines:

• The Ministry has requested all States to include proposals for establishing peritoneal dialysis under their respective programme implementation plans.
  
  
• The guidelines also envisage providing training to community health workers to provide support to persons for peritoneal dialysis at home or in primary healthcare settings.
  
  
• This move will instantly benefit the 2 lakh Indians who develop end-stage kidney failure every year in India.
  
  
• The Health Ministry had announced the National Dialysis Programme in 2016 and the first phase of the programme envisaged setting up of haemodialysis centres in all districts.