PMID: 15354966Sep 10, 2004Paper

End-stage renal care in developing countries: the India experience

Renal Failure
Vivekanand Jha

Abstract

Chronic renal failure is a devastating medical, social and economic problem for patients and their families. There is no data on the true incidence and prevalence of chronic renal failure in the developing world. Delayed diagnosis and failure of institution of measures to slow progression of renal failure result in a predominantly young ESRD population. Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a low-priority area for healthcare planners in developing nations with two-tier healthcare delivery system. There is a severe shortage of nephrologists and hospitals offering dialysis and transplantation, more so in the poorest regions. There is a direct relationship between the number of dialysis centers and per capita gross national income of developing nations. Shortage in the number of government-funded hospitals has fanned the growth of a large number of private hospitals offering RRT. The high cost of hemodialysis (HD) puts it beyond the reach of all but the very rich and maintenance HD is the exclusively preserve of private hospitals. Government-run hospitals are busy with renal transplantation, which is the only realistic long term RRT option for a majority of patients. There are no state-funded or private health insurance schemes and p...Continue Reading

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