Under the National Health Missions Free Dialysis Programme, free of cost dialysis facility is being provided in eight district hospitals of Chhattisgarh, it was announced on Thursday.

The facility began in Durg, Kanker, Korba, Bilaspur, Mahasamund and Bijapur from 2020 and it was extended to Jashpur and Surguja districts in June this year, an official Communication said.

For dialysis, five machines have been set up in Jashpur and four in Ambikapur.

So far, a total of 12,933 dialysis sessions have been conducted in the eight district hospitals.

Of these, 3,499 took place in Durg, 2,606 in Kanker, 2,370 in Mahasamund, 1,864 in Bilaspur, 1,793 in Korba.