8th June 2014 – Kidney Patients enforced a chakka jam at Ratna Park this morning demanding continuation of free dialysis services to them.
A significant number of kidney patients under the leadership of National Kidney Patients’ Association Nepal blocked traffic for an hour from 10:00 to 11:00 am at Ratna Park.
The kidney patients have taken to the streets putting forward a seven-point demand including free treatment for those who undergo kidney transplant and guarantee of employment by enlisting them under people with disabilities, among others.
The state should provide medicines free of cost for the kidney patients and ensure food, shelter and clothing to the patients who are financially poor, said the Association president Chintamani Pokharel.
One of the agitators Samir Pokharel said the government should widen the legal provisions relating to organ donation, approve donation of organs of the clinically dead people and ensure skilled human resources including dialysis facilities in the district hospitals.
The exact figure of people suffering from kidney failure is not available. SETOPATI
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