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Kathmandu, November 18
Staging a protest today in front of the prime minister residence in Baluwatar, kidney patients demanded that monthly
livelihood allowance to those suffering from kidney failure be provided immediately.
Kidney Victims Concerned Society Nepal, an umbrella
organisation of kidney patients in Nepal, submitted a 14-point memorandum to the prime minister secretariat today
Patients demanded that haemodialysis be made free at all hospitals and kidney transplantation procedures be eased.
They demanded electronic
listing of kidney patients, increase in the number of dialysis machines, provision of accommodation for family members accompanying patients
and reduced cost of medicines for kidney patients
Members of the society also demanded free treatment of kidney patients at government hospitals across the country.
Balaram Subedi,
coordinator of the Kidney Victims Concerned Society Nepal, said, &Kidney patients are facing difficulties as dialysis and medicines are
Though the government hospitals are providing free haemodialysis services, cost of medicines are higher
Also haemodialysis machines not adequate and many of them have stopped working
The government therefore should take an immediate action to ease lives of kidney patients.& Members of the society marched from Baluwatar to
Maitighar after submitting a memorandum.
The government had started providing Rs 5,000 monthly livelihood allowance to patients suffering
from kidney failure, cancer and paralysis from 26 January 2018
The then prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurating the programme had handed cheques worth Rs 5,000 each to 27 patients receiving
treatment at Bir Hospital and National Trauma Centre
The Cabinet meeting on 28 December 2017 had decided to provide Rs 5,000 to patients suffering from life-threatening diseases
Distribution of monthly livelihood allowance for the patients was put on hold later.
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