Oswal Mitra Mandal & ‘HIV Aids & Information Guidance Centre’have collaborated with ‘Apex Kidney Foundation a charitable trust founded in 2008. This foundation was started with the agenda:
- To work towards prevention of kidney diseases by educating the general population and through early detection.
- Providing support to those who are already inflicted with kidney disease in various ways including improvement in the quality of the care delivered by educating dialysis technicians and doctors, help in running charitable units, encourage kidney transplantation and provide financial and logistic help.
Apex Kidney care currently operates 52 centres providing outpatient and Inpatient dialysis services across 6 states – Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Orissa and Haryana.
Recognizing the need to service HIV positive patients who are generally shunned by dialysis centres, Oswal Mitra Mandal collaborated with the dedicated centre for seropositive patients, which is dedicated only for HIV positive patients. Eligibility is for those individuals who meet certain socio-economic requirements, don’t have insurance coverage, are being treated for kidney related diseases.
Apart from the above a Dialysis machine was also donated to the Centre.