Chennai: Tanker Foundation inaugurated its ninth dialysis unit on Friday at Porur in the city.
This is a joint effort of the Greater Chennai Corporation which has provided the complete infrastructure, Rotary Club of Chennai Coastal which has provided all the machines and other equipment and Tanker Foundation which will be running and managing the unit.
Corporation Commissioner G Prakash said this was the fourth tie up with Tanker Foundation and that two more units would be inaugurated in Injambakkam with Freemasons and Thiruvottriyur with Rotary next month. He said that they wanted to have 150 machines operational in Chennai and were working on it.
Almost 2.5 lakh people die of kidney failure in India every year. It is the third-largest killer after malignancy and heart disease.
Millions suffer from some form of kidney disease and many of them, particularly in India cannot afford the cost of treatment or care.