The representation office of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Yemen has launched a project to support dialysis services at the Zabid Dialysis Centre in Al-Hudaydah Governorate, for nine months, at a total cost of $135,158.
The Zabid Centre is the only government facility to provide free-of-charge treatment services for patients with kidney failure in the southern part of Al-Hudaydah. Most of the visitors are vulnerable, older, disabled, and low-income people from many districts across Al-Hudaydah, Dhamar, and Raymah.
Another project in progress is the construction of dialysis centre at Ibn Khaldun Hospital, located in Lahij, southern Yemen. The centre will have 12 dialysis machines, with a capacity of 500 patients per month, at a total cost of $298,145.
QRCS has recently completed a third project for patients with kidney failure and cancer, by supporting Al-Shafqa Foundation for the Care of Kidney and Cancer Patients with basic nutrition, water, electricity, fuel, and rent needs.
At a total cost of $145,022, this project helped alleviate the suffering of 3,000 patients and improve the quality of food services provided over 10 months.
Millions of Yemenis live in deteriorating health conditions, and the 45,000 patients with kidney failure are the group that suffers most. Supporting and operating government urology centres would help greatly reduce the financial burden on patients with chronic kidney failure. The cost per dialysis session at private-sector centers is $50, and each patient needs at least two sessions per week. This means $4,800 per year to avoid death.
According to official statistics, the mortality rate among patients with kidney failure is 25%, as a result of the lack or absence of adequate health services.
