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Renal problems haunt tribal people
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High incidence of kidney stone cases, known also as renal calculus or nephrolith, in Guvvalagutta thanda of Chandampet village in Nalgonda district is a cause for major health concern. Not less than 85 per cent of people in tribal hamlet are suffering from the problem.
- Not less than 85 per cent of people in Guvvalaguntta thanda are diagnosed as having kidney stone problem
- Patients complain that each one is forced to shell out between `1 lakh and Rs 1.5 lakh for surgery to get rid of problem
- Apart from it, most horrifying fact is that 15 persons died of cancer in the hamlet
Nalgonda: High incidence of kidney stone cases, known also as renal calculus or nephrolith, in Guvvalagutta thanda of Chandampet village in Nalgonda district is a cause for major health concern. Not less than 85 per cent of people in tribal hamlet are suffering from the problem.
Of the 1,500 people in the thanda, more than one third have undergone surgery to get rid of the problem, but it is coming back to haunt them within three years. Each time the patient undergoes surgery, he or she is forced to spend between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh. The poor tribal people are forced to borrow money to undergo surgery after spending their savings. Guvvalagutta is located 120 km from district headquarters.
Scores of people died of kidney related diseases in Guvvalagutta in the last five years. Most of them are in the age group of 30-45. What is more shocking is that nearly 150 people died due to cancer in the tribal hamlet in the last five years.Speaking to The Hans India, several people, who suffered such renal ailments and underwent surgery, complained of high cost of surgery.
Muddavath Darai (45) said she had shelled out Rs 1 lakh but she was not able work in the farm for more than two hours. She even cannot stand for a long time. Ramavath Bali, who spent Rs 1 lakh at a private hospital in Guntur town, said that her monthly medical bill after surgery amounted to Rs 2,000 for the last two years. She continued to suffer pain in her kidneys, if she worked for longer hours in the fields, she added.
Venkata Chary, three years after he was operated upon, began experiencing pain once more, a symptom of formation of stones. Mudhavath Srinu was diagnosed to have developed stones four years after surgery. “Having spent Rs. 1.5 lakh, I have no intention to undergo surgery again,” he lamented Ramavathi Chinni said the government officials had collected drinking water samples in the village for test and some stones extracted through surgery. But what happened to them was not known, she said.
Experts suspect that the high content of calcium in the Krishna river belt, known for limestone reserves, the drinking water could cause formation of calcium carbonate stones The people depended on a bore well for drinking water without facility of filtration system. The decades-old demand for providing potable water from the river Krishna to them through pipeline is yet to be fulfilled.
Moreover, a water filteration system, which was set up with the Constituency Development Funds of then Devarakonda MLA Nenavath Balu Naik in 2010, is also defunct for the last three years. A researcher Dr K Praveen Kumar, who carried out extensive study on water-born deceases, felt that the renal aliments in the people indicated that it was a serious problem.
By:Pillalamarri Srinivas
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