CONSULTANTS

Dr Raghuram Bhat, Consultant – Nephrologist and Renal Transplant Physician

Dr Shital Lengade, Director, Department of Nephrology is available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

OVERVIEW

Victor Hospital’s Dialysis centre is one of the oldest private Dialysis centre in Goa and is well equipped using the latest Dialysis machines. The Hospitals Dialysis centre is Goa’s largest dialysis centre with 30 beds conducting over 1200 dialysis done a month attracting patients from all over Goa.
Victor Hospital is empanelled under Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY) and patients can avail Dialysis under this cashless scheme and is known to be the most affordable health care in a tertiary care set up in Goa and the Hospital is also empanelled with all major insurance companies for cashless treatment. The Hospital has managed to admit and treat patients during the COVID pandemic including providing Dialysis services for COVID positive patients.

PROCEDURES CONDUCTED BY THE NEPHROLOGY DEPARTMENT

• Single needle system for subclavian catheter dialysis.
• Separate dialysis suite for those needing peritoneal dialysis
• Separate machine for Australian Antigen positive patients
• Continuous Artery Venous Haemodiafiltration (CAVHD)
• Kidney Biopsy
• Tunnelled dialysis catheter injection for Hemodialysis
• Perm Cath insertion
• AV fistula procedures
• Management of Acute Kidney injury,
• CKD, Electrolyte fixation
• Connective tissue disease (SLE, scleroderma etc)

The Hospital has 24 X 7 Emergency Services, state of the art Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as well as well equipped operation theatres available to handle all types of Nephrology cases.

Victor Hospital is also the only private hospital in the state of Goa to have the Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) service with dedicated qualified and trained staff. Unlike regular dialysis which takes 3-4 hours, CRRT is a continuous dialysis which runs 24 hours a day and is life saving for treatment of critically ill patients with acute kidney failure and shock.

Treatment modalities:

• Continuous Veno – Venous Hemofiltration (CVVH)
• Continuous veno-venous Hemodialysis (CVVHD)
• Continuous veno-venous Hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF)
• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange