Visakhapatnam: YSRC president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday raised a demand to set up dialysis centres in all the Primary Health Centres (PHCs) across Uddanam area in Srikakulam district. Expressing concern over the gross neglect of the patients suffering from chronic kidney diseases in the Uddanam region of Srikakulam, Mr Jagan has assured the people of Uddanam region that he would intensify the pressure on the TD government to bring more medical facilities into being across Uddanam area.
During his two-day visit to Srikakulam district, the opposition leader interacted with the kidney victims at Jagati village of Kaviti mandal on the second day and he spent more than 45 minutes in interacting with the victims and their family members in the gallery nearby the dias. Addressing the gathering, Mr Jagan said that he came to know that the kidney patients in the region are spending more than Rs 10,000 every month for dialysis and other kidney related treatments. “I would sanction pension to all kidney victims if my party is voted to power in another two years,” Mr Jagan added.
Hitting out at the Chief Minister, Mr Jagan said that Mr Chandrababu Naidu would no longer continue as Chief Minister of the state but he would exert more pressure on Mr Naidu’s government on the kidney-related issues in Uddanam. Though over 30,000 people are suffering from kidney-related ailments across Uddanam regionand more than 4,500 people died of it in the past one decade, the government could not even deploy a single nephrologist in the RIMS hospital in Srikakulam, Mr Jagan pointed out.
Citing that TD government has ignored the kidney patients, Mr Jagan said that YSRC MP of Kadapa, Y.S. Avinash Reddy wrote to the union government enquiring about any request from AP government for setting up kidney research centre in Uddanam and he was replied in the negative.
