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How coronavirus crisis is holding India's kidney patients to ransom

Many are unable to get the dialysis they need to survive as troubles mount after lockdown being imposed across the country

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5 min read Last Updated : May 15 2020 | 3:24 PM IST

The grandmother of Arun Aklekar (name changed on request) suffers from kidney failure and usually takes her dialysis treatments every few days. What might be considered a taxing routine anyway became worse when the Mumbai hospital they go to for her sessions shut down its dialysis unit after someone tested positive for Covid-19.

Similar closures and lack of transportation amid the pandemic, and the lockdown that came with it, have raised questions about the fate of those suffering from advanced kidney failure, an ailment which kills an estimated 225,000-275,000 every year in India, even without the problems that the

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