Plan to increase dialysis facilities
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JIADING plans to increase the hospital facilities available for residents needing kidney dialysis over the next five years as demand for the service is increasing cope.
At present the district has around 190 people who need dialysis and that is estimated to grow to over 1,000 within 10 years.
Jiading Central Hospital has 33 dialysis machines, operating six days a week and three shifts a day. But that still leaves around 60 patients having to wait at least three months for treatment.
“Without the dialysis machine I would have died,” a 67-year-old woman surnamed Wang said. She visits the hospital for dialysis treatment three times a week. Each treatment takes around four hours and she has been relying on dialysis to keep her alive for the past 10 years.
Despite her problems, Wang manages to live a normal live, apart from the hours spend in hospital each week.
Wang had 14 dialysis procedures every month and pays just under 600 yuan (US$92), with the balance covered by insurance.
Dialysis is only option for most kidney patients as transplants are far too expensive and the chance of getting a kidney transplant in China is also slim.
In Shanghai there are about 700 patients needing blood dialysis for every one million people. And for every one million of the population the number of such patients increases by almost 100 every year, according to Shanghai Blood Dialysis Quality Control Center.
The newly opened Jiading campus of Ruijin Hospital has incorporated dialysis into its plan.
Another two hospitals in Jiading are also considering adding such facilities.
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