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All About Kidney - A Lecture by eminent nephrologist Dr Arun P Doshi
The Greater Mumbai Unit in with the kind co-operation of Dr K. S. Vardachari, M. D., Chief Medical Officer, Sri Shanmukhananda Jasubhai R.K. Shah Medical Centre, arranged:
- "All about kidney" - by Dr Arun P. Doshi
A lecture on this important organ (kidney) and its place in the body and its functions. Also covered were diseases about kidney, preventive measures, ways of early detection and treatment guidelines. - A visit to the Nerolac Dialysis Unit
Dialysis is an important measure that is both Life Saving & Life Prolonging. The Nerolac Dialysis unit at the Medical Centre has over 12 dialysis machines and provides low-cost dialysis for the poor and needy patients in Mumbai. The Center aims to perform over 10,000 dialysis procedures per year.
Dr Doshi demonstrated the workings of a dialysis mechine and gave valuable advice on how to deal with such an event in our families. He enlightened the audience about the kidney, the type of dialysis, when is dialysis necessary, what measures to take among other points. The lecture was well attended by the members and their guests.
The Greater Mumbai Unit will soon work out the modalities of providing some kind of support to the Medical Center.
The Q&A session too was very interesting with the audience grilling Dr Doshi with various questions ranging from preventive measures, protien effects on kidney to medical tests necessary.
The Q&A session reflected the immense interest in the field, the lack of basic knowledge about dialysis and its frequency (many thought dialysis is a permanent procedure, rather than a one time procedure in majority of the cases) and the fear of having to undergo a dialysis.
About the Sri Shanmukhananda Jasubhai R.K. Shah Medical Centre
In fulfillment of its social obligation Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts & Sangeetha Sabha had established two and a half decades ago a Medical Centre, now known as Sri Shanmukhananda Jasubhai R.K. Shah Medical Centre, for providing medical facilities such as diagnostic tests and medical advice at easily affordable cost to the Sabha members as well as general public including vulnerable sections of the society.
The Centre, apart from running a state-of-the-art diagnostic facility for pathological tests, Sonography, ECG, X-Ray, clinics for allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedic treatments, physiotherapy, etc., renders medical advice through a panel of consultants from various disciplines of medicine. The Centre also holds, periodically, various medical camps such as Camps for Diabetes, Asthma, Arthritis, Eye, etc., and immunization camps in association with agencies like the Inner Wheel Clubs etc, for free immunization of Balwadi Children against Typhoid, MMR and Hep-B.
During the last two years, the Centre has immunized more than two thousand children. As part of its Continuing Medical Education Programme, the Centre conducts from time to time, lectures on various departments in the field of Medicine for the benefit of General Practitioners.
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