New Dialysis Center in Ibb
I’m happy about this. From the Yemen Times:
The Kidney Failure Patients Society held a Feb. 23 ceremony at Ibb Cultural Center to inaugurate the opening of a kidney dialysis center at Al-Thawra Hospital, Ibb….Dr. Amin Abdul Wahid Al-Rubie, health office director and head of Friends of the Kidney Failure Patients Society, welcomed ceremony attendees. He explained kidney failure, highlighting the suffering of kidney patients at large, who cannot afford treatment costs, and in Ibb in particular. Ibb is famous for having the largest number of kidney failure patients. He said the society has a commitment to pay the company providing serum and equipment YR 12 million but unfortunately, it has failed to pay that sum until now. (huh?)…..There are six kidney dialysis centers among the governorates and Ibb’s center is one of them. Al-Motawakil hoped center duties would not be limited only to kidney dialysis, but that it also would send patients to the Sana’a kidney transplant center, pointing out that donors should be from among patients’ relatives.
In some of the other governates, the patients get treatment but not as frequently as necessary. So let’s hope things are improving on this issue.
