After the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) free dialysis program was implemented, the demand for renal services at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) more than tripled. The six machines at the Renal Unit, according to facility authorities, are now insufficient, thus they are having to extend the dialysis equipment’s servicing intervals. Patients and their families are constantly congested in the makeshift dialysis facility located in the Emergency Unit of KATH. All six of the dialysis machines were in use when I visited recently.
The hospital’s three dialysis machines, which catered to the few patients who could afford the procedure, were limited until May of this year. For persons over sixty and under eighteen, the NHIA Free Dialysis Program provides free dialysis sessions. Every month, two complimentary sessions are offered to anyone between the ages of eighteen and sixty. About twenty out of every hundred patients with end-stage renal failure could not afford dialysis prior to our intervention. The number of patients requesting the service has more than tripled since the program’s launch, putting additional hours on the personnel.
SOURCE: https://dew360.net
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