GUJRAT: The first consignment of 16 dialysis machines has reached the Gujrat Kidney Centre while more machines will be delivered within a few days.

Each dialysis machine costs Rs1 million while a German company given a contract for supplying and installing these machines has so far been paid Rs25m. A latest electronic lift, having a capacity enough to carry a bed to shift a patient on the first and second floors, is also being installed at a cost of Rs3m.

An official at the kidney centre said that 25 beds had also been procured while around 700-foot deep bore was being dug for the clean water to be supplied to run the dialysis machines.

A project of the public-private partnership, the l
A sum of Rs70m has so far been spent on the project which was donated by local philanthropists while around Rs20m more are required for its completion. Correspondent