By NATION REPORTERTHE University Teaching Hospital has run out of fluids and other consumables required for renal patients on Peritonial Dialysis (PD) therapy for over five weeks.And the Kidney Foundation of Zambia (KFZ) has appealed for immediate intervention from the President Edgar Lungu on the matter. KFZ chairperson, Thabo Kawana said in a statement there were no PD fluids at UTH in both the adult ward and the children’s ward.Mr Kawana said patients were being referred to Augusta, the supplier in Lusaka to purchase at K2, 000 per box per day (for manual based dialysis) and K4,200 per box per day (for machine based dialysis). “This entails that K60000 and K126,000 respectively is required per patient per month,” he said in a statement.Mr Kawana said for hemodialysis (HD), there were no lines (4008 and 5008), dialyzers and consumables at UTH to facilitate dialysis resulting in fatalities being recorded due to inadequate or erratic dialysis sessions.He […]
‘UTH RUNS OUT OF DIALYSIS CONSUMABLES’
