Ouano lobbies kidney center per district

CEBU, Philippines - Provincial Board member Thadeo Ouano is urging all congressmen in Cebu province to provide dialysis center in their respective district to cater indigent kidney renal patients.

In an approved resolution, Ouano explained that there was an increasing number of kidney renal patients in Central Visayas last year.

“What is more striking is that more and more patients diagnosed with chronic renal or kidney failure come from the lowest level of society,” he said in the resolution.

Patients diagnosed with severe Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a progressive loss in renal function over a long period, require renal replacement therapy or kidney transplant.

Many CKD patients opt only for kidney dialysis sessions rather than the “expensive” transplant, said Ouano.

He disclosed that his office encountered many patients with CDK from different districts asking assistance for their dialysis sessions.

Kidney dialysis sessions are usually done twice a week depending on severity of the disease. Every session costs more than P3,000, excluding the medicines.

“Oftentimes, we, the Province of Cebu and all other organizations only give assistance to this kind of patients once every six months, so how will they pay if they are to undergo twice a week sessions,” he said, “our Congressmen...have the capacity to help and give more lasting relief to these patients not by giving money... but by providing dialysis centers.”

With the increasing number of patients with CDK, Ouano also requested the Philippine Society of Nephrology  and the Department of Health in the region to conduct information drive about CDK. —/JRS (FREEMAN)