Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has started Maharashtra’s largest 50-bed dialysis centre, free-of-cost, at the Vivekananda Cultural Center building in Vashi Sector 14, officials said. The cost of dialysis, around Rs 3,000 to Rs 3,500 per session, made it unaffordable for many patients, if done two to three times a week. Municipal commissioner Kailas Shinde directed officials to spread information about the dialysis centre as much as possible so that needy citizens could benefit from the facilities available there. Shinde said, keeping in mind the increasing need for dialysis, the municipal corporation provided dialysis facilities with a total of 85 beds, including 50 under one roof in this special dialysis centre, 10 in the corporation’s Vashi Public Hospital, 11 in Nerul Hospital, 11 in Airoli Hospital and three in the centre in CBD Belapur.
