200 KUWAITIS REQUIRE KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS OR DIALYSIS - NUMBERS HAVE DOUBLED

  • 08/11/2022

Kuwait City: The Ministry of Health opened the Sheikh Mubarak Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Dialysis Center in 2015, and since then it has continued to help its patients who were suffering because they had to travel to other far-off centres. The center's director, Dr. Nasser Al-Kandari, stated that 200 citizens of the nation require kidney dialysis or transplantation each year, indicating that when the centre first opened 7 years ago, there were 241 patients receiving hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Today, there are 595 patients who visit the centre on a regular basis. 


Al-Kandari stated that there were 71 peritoneal dialysis patients at the facility when it first opened, and that number has since doubled to 154. He noted that this makes our facility the largest dialysis centre in Kuwait and one of the largest similar facilities in the Middle East. 

Al-Kandari stated that in addition to providing dialysis, the facility also sees 50 to 70 patients per day in its outpatient clinics. These clinics include general and specialty kidney clinics as well as a one-day clinic that offers services for giving medications and intravenous fluids without requiring patients to go inside the centre or hospital to which it belongs.

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