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📰 Health Ministry’s guidelines for peritoneal dialysis services welcomed
‘Move will move will benefit the 2 lakh Indians who develop end-stage kidney failure every year in India’
•Aimed at achieving equity in patient access to home-based peritoneal dialysis; reducing the overall cost of care; and bringing in consistency of practice, pricing and a full range of product availability, the Health Ministry has released guidelines for establishing peritoneal dialysis services under the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Program (PMNDP).
•It has also requested all States to include proposals for establishing peritoneal dialysis under their respective programme implementation plans. According to a health official, the guidelines aim to serve as a comprehensive manual to States that intend to set up peritoneal dialysis.
Extensive consultation
•The guidelines were formulated after an extensive consultative process that was coordinated by the National Health Systems Resource Centre and an expert committee.
•Chair of the Committee, Professor Vivekanand Jha, also executive director, George Institute for Global Health-India, said that this move will instantly benefit the 2 lakh Indians who develop end-stage kidney failure every year in India.
•“They now have another treatment option that allows them to do dialysis at home with potential flexibility in lifestyle. Mass-based peritoneal dialysis programmes also have the potential to substantially bring down the cost of treatment,” he added.
•During peritoneal dialysis, a cleansing fluid (dialysate) is circulated through a tube (catheter) inside a part of the abdominal cavity (peritonealcavity). The dialysate absorbs waste products from blood vessels in the abdominal lining (peritoneum) and then is drawn back out of the body and discarded.
•Prof. Jha explained that 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.
•“Given that peritoneal dialysis avoids the substantial costs of infrastructure set-up, maintenance and staffing, reduces the demands placed on the healthcare system and offers patient autonomy, the decision has now been made to include peritoneal dialysis in the ambit of the National Dialysis Programme,” Prof. Jha said.
Children excluded
•Arvind Bagga, Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatric Nephrology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, and a member of the expert committee, said that children with kidney failure were particularly disadvantaged due to the exclusion of peritoneal dialysis from this programme.
•“This modality is particularly suited to children who need dialysis because of biological and lifestyle reasons. Further, paediatric haemodialysis facilities are scarce in India,” he added.
•The guidelines, meanwhile, envisage providing training to community health workers to provide support to persons on peritoneal dialysis at home or in primary healthcare settings.
‘Self-care tools’
•“We recommend that simple self-care tools can be developed, which can help people on peritoneal dialysis to pre-empt development of complications by detecting them early and be in constant communication with care providers,” said Narayan Prasad, secretary general, Indian Society of Nephrology and a member of the expert committee.
📰 Minding the gaps in India’s data infrastructure
Daily Current Affairs, 24th October 2019
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1) United Nations Day: 24 October
•United Nations will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in 2020 with inclusive global conversation on the role of global cooperation in building the future we want. The UN75 initiative seeks to spark dialogue and action on how we can build a better world despite the many challenges we face.
2) World Development Information Day: 24 October
•The General Assembly decided that the date for the Day should coincide with United Nations Day i.e. 24 October.
3) Union Cabinet approves merger of BSNL and MTNL
•The revival package includes raising sovereign bonds, monetising assets and voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for employees. The revival package for BSNL and MTNL includes raising of Rs 15,000 crore sovereign bonds and monetising Rs 38,000 crore of assets in next 4 years. Under the package, 4G spectrum worth Rs 20,000 crore will be administratively allotted to the two firms.
4) Indian Army to conduct 2019 “Sindhu Sudarshan” exercise 2019 in Rajasthan deserts
•In the Sindhu Sudarshan exercise, operational efficiency of the Strike Corps fighting in the desert terrain will be assessed and the Indian Air Force(IAF) will provide support in terms of destruction of targets and airlifting troops. The exercise showcasing a high degree of synergy between the Army and Air Force will be reviewed by Lieutenant General SK Saini.
5) GeM and Federal Bank sign MoU for payment related services
6) Deepika Padukone, PV Sindhu named as ambassadors for ‘Bharat Ki Laxmi’ initiative
7) Amazon’s male white bellbird is the world’s loudest bird
•The call by the bird is made as part of their mating rituals and it’s mating call is about three times louder than screaming phias. The screaming phias (Lipaugus vociferans), also an Amazonian species, previously held the record of being the world’s loudest bird.
8) Vreedhi Financial Services receives an NBFC licence from RBI
9) A new book entitled “Ten Studies in Kashmir: History and Politics” released
•A new book looks at the riveting history of Jammu and Kashmir from the time of its political and geographic consolidation to the abrogation of the state’s special status. The book, which comes after the scrapping of Article 370 provisions in August, will shed light on the happenings from 1947 till the revocation of the special status of the state.
10) Mohun Bagan confers life membership to Abhijit Banerjee
•In 1911, Mohun Bagan became the first Indian club to win the Indian Football Association (IFA) Shield beating the East Yorkshire Regiment of the British Army in the final.
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