Kidney Friends

this is the exact thought that went through my mind,
what is happening to assist the Haitians that are in need
of dialysis, or any other medical treatment?

Quote:In the wake of a devastating Haiti earthquake, the U.S. kidney community collected millions of dollars as well as dialysis equipment, medications, supplies and clinical staff to assist in providing life-saving care to Haitian survivors living with kidney failure and in need of emergency treatment.


Members of Kidney Care Partners said they are working to respond to Haiti's pleas for dialysis assistance.


Our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands of Haitians and their families near and far in the wake of such devastation," said Kent Thiry, Chairman of Kidney Care Partners. KCP member companies and organizations representing all facets of the kidney care community have quickly and generously responded to this plea.


Fresenius Medical Care loaded dialysis equipment and supplies onto the USNS Comfort, a floating medical treatment facility on its way to Haiti. The American Society of Nephrology has helped recruit 70 trained clinical volunteers and physicians to assist in providing emergency care on the ground. Amgen has donated $2 million toward relief efforts, and
Baxter Healthcare has donated $1 million.


Not only has the quake disrupted the administration of dialysis treatments for Haitians with kidney failure, there are also an unknown number of injured quake victims who have lost kidney function due to their injuries who now need emergency dialysis care.

KCP members are working collaboratively through the Kidney Community Emergency Response (KCER) coalition, federal authorities and emergency response teams to:

•Provide dialysis equipment, medication and other medical supplies necessary for administering dialysis

•Provide nurses and physicians on location to provide dialysis to those in need

•Identify alternate dialysis locations for those displaced from damaged dialysis centers and hospitals

•Spread the word about the availability and location of emergency dialysis care
;
•Arrange transportation to emergency dialysis facilities within Haiti as well as in the neighboring Dominican Republic, Florida and Puerto Rico for patients and clinicians and,

•Assist established dialysis centers in neighboring countries to care for any influx of Haitian refugees in need of treatment.

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i'm so glad i was watching tv and saw that dialysis pts were not getting any care as well as many others like elderly pts from a nursing that collaped and they got out. but no meds water ect so these peopler just laying or sitting up in the streets. so sad that people have to live in that kind of poverty. in this day and age.

(01-19-2010 05:42 PM)deb54 Wrote: [ -> ]i'm so glad i was watching tv and saw that dialysis pts were not getting any care as well as many others like elderly pts from a nursing that collaped and they got out. but no meds water ect so these peopler just laying or sitting up in the streets. so sad that people have to live in that kind of poverty. in this day and age.

it's so sad, my heart goes out to all suffering.

Life -Saving Dialysis Machines Donated to Haiti

There are no critical dialysis machines in Haiti but
that is about to change

Quote:As relief efforts brought everything from clothes, food and
medicine to help Haitians still reeling from the devastating earthquake
that struck the island, doctors still needed one vital tool to keep the
injured alive. Now they have it.

Nine dialysis machines are on their way from Miami to Haiti, which could be
the live-saving force for thousands of Haitians still suffering from lost limbs
and catastrophic internal injuries.

The machines were donated by a Pennsylvania company to Miami's Project Medishare.

"There has never been an organized effort to provide dialysis in Haiti," Dr. Art Fournier, co-founder of Project Medishare, said. "It has never worked and dialysis machines are desperately needed."
Also aiding in the equipment collection effort was Project Save the World, the charity that raised the funds to located the machines and support Project Medishare's initial set up and operation of them.

Doctors were hoping for one. The charity found nine.

"It came as a pleasant surprise," Brigitte Andrade said. "I started called around hoping to find one machine and then they told me there were 9."

It will be several weeks before the machines are set up, but news of their
pending arrival has blown new life into physicians still volunteering on the island nation and their patients who were waiting for a sign of hope.

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