Govt Assistance for Kidney patients

*ASSISTANCE SOUGHT BY KIDNEY PATIENTS

There is crying need for Government Assistance for the welfare of kidney patients and those who have undergone organ transplant.

Patients with organ failure and those who have undergone transplant, both need help of the government for their survival.

Following urgent actions are suggested :

Ensure job security and income security to patients and/or families so that they can meet the medical and other expenses associated with the the miserable situation arisen as a result of the disease.
Ensure Job Security

Measures to ensure that kidney patients are not laid off or dismissed from the institutions they work, particularly from the private sector institutions.

Kinder approach to patients with organ failure with generous working conditions allowed in government and non government institution so as to help them adjust job commitments along with their treatment for health.

Ensure job reservations for patients who are in dialysis and also those who have undergone kidney transplant so that they make some money to meet their treatment expenses and reduce dependency on others.

Ensure job reservations at least on contract basis  to aclose relative of a person afflicted with organ failure so as to enable him/her to support the patient. This may be limited to the period the patient suvive
Provide Insurance Coverage

Measures to ensure that kidney patients gets quality medical insurance coverage

Make Employees State Insurance (ESI) compulsory in all private institutions including educational institutions
Medical Infrastructure

Establish government dialysis centers in all districts where dialysis is given at subsidised /affordable rates.

Subsidise medicines and medical accessories used by kidney patients to reduce their financial burden

Increase the supply of dialysis units available in hospitals and make available affordable dialysis to all patients and make dialysis equipments tax free.
Welfare schemes

Rehabilitation schemes shall be introduced for kidney patients

Introduce concessions in all sectors for kidney patients and their supporting relatives including private and KSRTC buses.

Introduce concessions in both private and state transport corporation buses at par with railway concession for kidney patients

Reservations for children of kidney patients in private and government schools and provide educational supports including fee concessions

Introduce employment schemes tailor made for patients suffering kidney diseases or have undergone transplant operation
Increase organ availibility

Appoint a task force to remove hurdles for facilitating organ transplant.

Encourage willing donors to donate kidney /organs. Make willing living donors symbols of human love and kindess and sacrifice and reward them with job reservations/ governmental assistance

Promote cadaver transplant for increasing organ availability by introducing generous incentives for relatives for the dead person, advertisements in media, compulsory retrieval of cadavers as done in developed nations, removing hurdles for retrieving organs from cadavers etc.

Promote living donor transplant and encourage willing donors by providing introducing incentive schemes and reservations for the living donor. Unfair kidney trade must be stopped by government stepping in to provide fair deal to the willing donors for their sacrifice.

Promote donor organ swapping by facilitating mass transplant operations where a group of patients and willing donors come together and donors with matching kidneys are swapped

Increase organ transplant infrastructure in government hospitals to highest standards
Other Measures

Promote medical research in the field of kidney diseases and introduce mechanisms to share information

Introduce a national directory for organ transplant

National policy for organ transplant and monitoring machinery to ensure better availibility of donor organs

Promote private sector and NGO involvement in supporting kidney patients