It has become routine for Renuka Chettri, 50, from Pasakha in Pheuntsholing, to travel to Thimphu at least twice a week for dialysis at the national referral hospital.

“Last June, the doctor told me that my kidneys have shrunk and then I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease,” she said.

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