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Babin visits Cleveland dialysis clinic - Your Houston News |
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Before the Davita Cleveland Dialysis Center moves to its new location, a 10,000 square-foot facility near Southside Elementary School, staff members got the opportunity to show the facility to U.S. Representative Brian Babin, who took a tour of the building on Monday, March 9, speaking to doctors and patients.
According to statistics released by the healthcare provider, there are currently more than 26 million American adults living with some form of chronic kidney disease.
If left untreated, the disease can ultimately progress to kidney failure. The rising expenses associated with treatment have led to an increase in mortality rates, which is only expected to rise with recent legislation associated with the Affordable Care Act.
The plight is not lost on Babin, who was a doctor for many years before taking on a position in national politics. Babin spoke with each patient as he toured the building, showing genuine interest in the situation, which is considered “life or death” for the many patients who must undergo dialysis treatments.
In speaking with local veteran Edward Harris, he commended the man for his military service before receiving an encouraging response.
“I won’t ask if you’re Republican or Democrat,” said Harris. “If you’re doing something to save lives, you’ve got my vote.”
The visit was a much anticipated one by the doctors and staff members at the center, as it provided them the opportunity to present the current state of the average patient in an informative light.
It also enabled them to explain to Babin how the kidney care community is working with U.S. Congress to protect those who depend on dialysis treatments to live.
“You either love dialysis or you don’t love dialysis, but this is our family,” said Family Administrator Christine Biggers. “We love our patients. This is the first job I feel that we are really making a difference.”
Approximately 84 percent of End Stage Renal Disease, or ESRD, patients depend on Medicare’s ESRD benefit to fund treatments. The benefit was put into place by Congress more than 40 years ago to ensure that all kidney failure patients can have access to the life-sustaining therapy.
The main goal of the Davita Cleveland Dialysis Center is to help keep patients alive and fully functioning. Clinic staff member Jonathan Davis presented Babin with an informative series of graphs and statistics on the current state of treatment funding options, also pointing out that portions of the Affordable Care Act will not prove very helpful to continued operations.
“We want to change the system as opposed to not treat the patient,” said Davis.
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Boost for Renal Patients - The Herald |
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By Andrew Chimedza
Government has acquired 14 dialysis machines under the $100 million Chinese loan in a development expected to ease treatment of kidney patients.
In a speech read on his behalf during the launch of the Kidney Association of Zimbabwe in Harare on Friday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa said the machines would be distributed to all the country's 10 provinces.
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"All the provincial hospitals will be having a dialysis machine that will cater for renal patients and as we speak right now, distribution of the machines is under way", said Dr Parirenyatwa.
He said the acquisition of dialysis machines was expected to bring relief to patients. "As Government we have taken the initiative to make hemodialysis accessible to all. Prior to the development the country had only one centre in our public institutions which is Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals. Now we have other four public institutions that offer the process such as Harare Hospital, Mpilo Hospital, Chitungwiza Central Hospital and Gweru General Hospital," he said. Dr Parirenyatwa said there were 30 patients on dialysis in public health institutions. He said patients use dialysis machines three times a week which translate to between $600- $900, which is beyond the reach of many. "As Government we have assisted more than 10 people to go overseas for kidney transplant." Kidney Association of Zimbabwe Trust Chairman Mr Lysias Sibanda said there was need to have specialists in kidney treatment in the country. "Currently, Zimbabwe only has less than five Nephrologists (specialists in kidney treatment) so there is need to motivate for the availability of skills in the field," said Mr Sibanda.
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Early detection key to renal disease treatment - Yahoo! Maktoob News |
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People should become aware of the increasing number of renal patients in the Kingdom for its prevention and treatment, observed Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman, supervisor general of the Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Society for the Care of Kidney Failure Patients.
The prince was speaking at the launch of a three-day campaign, titled “Kidney Health for All,” to mark World Kidney Day in the Kingdom.
This year, the Kingdom joined 90 countries around the world to observe World Kidney Day.
The event was organized by the Prince Salman Center for Kidney Diseases in association with the Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Society for the Care of Kidney Failure Patients under the auspices of the Health Ministry.
Health Minister Ahmad Al-Khateeb and senior officials from the sponsoring organizations and from the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation (SCOT) were present. Following the launch, the prince and health minister jointly viewed an exhibition to highlight the causes, prevention and treatment of renal diseases in the Kingdom.
More than 25 exhibitors from reputable medical firms took part in the show arranged by event sponsors. The three-day program will include lectures, demonstrations and dialogues among participating delegates.
Prince Abdul Aziz said there is an average growth of 9 percent in kidney patients in the Kingdom. Quoting statistics from SCOT, the prince pointed out that there are more than 17,000 patients, of whom 15,600 patients receive hemodialysis, while 1,500 patients receive peritoneal dialysis.
“There are 2,400 primary health care centers (PHC) in the Kingdom which help patients identify renal diseases at an early stage and refer them to specialized health facilities,” Al-Khateeb said.
In addition, there are 3,400 dialysis machines in 143 centers throughout the Kingdom. The minister said the dialysis centers will be increased to 167 to reach the patients living in remote towns and villages.
Al-Khateeb said the world spends colossal sums for the prevention and treatment of kidney diseases in their respective countries.
“These countries conduct research on the prevention of kidney diseases and organize awareness campaigns regularly to control the spread of the kidney diseases,” he said.
According to the World Health Organization, he said it is estimated that some $1 trillion will be sent for treatment of kidney diseases in the world during the next 10 years.
Diabetes and hypertension are the two main causes of renal diseases, he added, and it is predicted that another 300 million people will be affected with diabetes and hypertension globally by 2025.
The health minister stressed the role of the media for the National Kidney Diseases Awareness Campaign launched last week in the capital.
Copyright: Arab News © 2015 All rights reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info).
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Lagos Set to Unveil World-Class Cardiac, Renal Centre - AllAfrica.com |
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By George Okojie
Lagos State government yesterday said it has completed an ultra-modern cardiac and renal centre at Gbagada area of Lagos.
The state commissioner for health, Dr Jide Idris, who disclosed this to newsmen said the effort is aimed at ensuring local management of cardio-vascular diseases like coronary heart disease as well as chronic kidney diseases.
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He said the centre which is billed to be unveiled on Wednesday by the Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, is a 67-bed facility within the premises of the Gbagada General Hospital.
According to Idris, the idea behind building the centre stems from the need to stop the increasing spate of medical trips abroad, as well as building local capacity for ailments that should be treated locally but for lack of expertise and facilities to manage them. He said, "The facility is designed to handle heart and kidney related diseases and also offers out-patient services, diagnostic services, ultrasound, CT scan, Echo cardiography, Stress Electrocardiography, laboratory services, fluoroscopy, ocular investigation for complications from hypertension, diabetes and renal conditions, haemo-dialysis for acute and chronic kidney diseases with 24 dialysis machines. "Others are admission for all cardiac conditions that require hospital stay, critical care in intensive care unit (ICU) and high dependency wards, cardiac catherisation, non-invasive cardiology, open heart surgery, renal surgery, nursing and diabetic services, rehabilitation services and corporate wellness programme." The commissioner emphasised that the state government through the Ministry of Health considers it appropriate and timely to have a befitting cardiac and renal centre due to the increasing number of patients presenting with end stage renal failure and coronary heart diseases.
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Lagos Set To Unveil World-class Cardiac, Renal Centre - Leadership Newspapers |
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Lagos State government yesterday said it has completed an ultra-modern cardiac and renal centre at Gbagada area of Lagos.
The state commissioner for health, Dr Jide Idris, who disclosed this to newsmen said the effort is aimed at ensuring local management of cardio-vascular diseases like coronary heart disease as well as chronic kidney diseases.
He said the centre which is billed to be unveiled on Wednesday by the Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, is a 67-bed facility within the premises of the Gbagada General Hospital.
According to Idris, the idea behind building the centre stems from the need to stop the increasing spate of medical trips abroad, as well as building local capacity for ailments that should be treated locally but for lack of expertise and facilities to manage them.
He said, “The facility is designed to handle heart and kidney related diseases and also offers out-patient services, diagnostic services, ultrasound, CT scan, Echo cardiography, Stress Electrocardiography, laboratory services, fluoroscopy, ocular investigation for complications from hypertension, diabetes and renal conditions, haemo-dialysis for acute and chronic kidney diseases with 24 dialysis machines.
“Others are admission for all cardiac conditions that require hospital stay, critical care in intensive care unit (ICU) and high dependency wards, cardiac catherisation, non-invasive cardiology, open heart surgery, renal surgery, nursing and diabetic services, rehabilitation services and corporate wellness programme.”
The commissioner emphasised that the state government through the Ministry of Health considers it appropriate and timely to have a befitting cardiac and renal centre due to the increasing number of patients presenting with end stage renal failure and coronary heart diseases.
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