If Nano comes for 1 Lakh why not a dialysis machine

One of the major reason for costly dialysis therapy is the expensive dialysis machines. Given the fact that most of the science of dialysis depends on the dialyzer (the filter membrane that acts as artificial kidney), we do not understand why the cost of machine is so high. Also presently all dialysis machines in India are imported. Such expensive technologies with not great servicing can not penetrate India - who will take an expensive machine to rural India if it can not easily be serviced. A study on lack of infant incubators in Africa pointed to the same two reasons - 1) Expensive machine 2) lack of service.

The lack of service bit can be solved by having a good servicing team in India. On the machine front though we have to develop these machines in India. In really simplified terms - the machine is just a pump. It takes blood out of the body, passes it through the dialyzer and pumps it right back in. Infact we have heard more than one account of situations where dialysis machines were actually run by hands when there was no power in hospitals. Its other features also do not have any technology that is out of reach here in India.

I think its a matter of inspiration and will. In a country where a Nano can be made in "not possible range" of 1 lakh why cant we make a cheap dialysis machine. After all a Nano has 4 wheels, and so has a dialysis machine! :)