For many local renal failure patients, who are also economically challenged, their only hopeThe expanded Doobay Medical Centreof survival is dialysis offered at a renal care centre situated on the East Coast of Demerara. The Doobay Medical Centre,Supply Cheap Jerseys, at Annandale, which has been in existence for just over three years, has been catering to a number of these patients.While there are other facilities offering dialysis to renal failure patients, a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Health and the not-for-profit organisation,NFL Jerseys China, allows for patients to be dialysed at a reduced cost. This amounts to just about $9,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,000 per dialysis session.Renal failure also known as?kidney failure?is a medical condition in which the?kidneys?fail to adequately filter waste products from the blood. Dialysis?is therefore a treatment that does some of the work done by healthy kidneys.Among those currently accessing dialysis service at the Doobay Medical Centre is 35-year-old Delsa Maynard. She was diagnosed with renal failure about four years ago. Although sheDelsa Maynard undergoing dialysisresides at Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara, she said that she is willing to make the distant trip to Annandale since she is afforded a reduced cost of dialysis there. She undergoes dialysis twice weekly.Maynard first learnt that her kidneys were not working well while in Barbados. She had gone there for employment but found that she could not cope. She was easily becoming fatigued. A visit to a doctor’s office revealed her renal failure condition.Interesting enough the doctor encouraged her to return home to access renal care. The mother of one was seen at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where she was placed on treatment and soon after dialysis at the Doobay Medical Centre started.She, during an interview with this publication, intimated how grateful she is for the collaboration between the Health Ministry and the Doobay Medical Centre since she is able to access care at an affordable cost. This is in light of the fact that her condition had caused her to be unable to work. But with the regular dialysis she has been able to access, Maynard said that she is gearing towards soon changing her employment situation.Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, talks with Head Nurse, Olive Sinclair,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys 2018, about Anil Singh’s condition.Forty-three-year-old Anil Singh of Kitty, Georgetown, had nothing but high praise for the care he too is receiving from the Medical Centre. “It is a great service,” said Singh as he recalled how he was diagnosed with renal failure about one year ago.His condition is however compounded by a stroke he suffered. As such he too is unable to work. He is required to undergo dialysis three times weekly and is dependent on his elderly mother to support him daily.Although scores of patients are already being catered to, the Doobay Medical Centre is currently on course to cater to an increased number of patients with situations similar to that of Maynard and Singh’sWhile recently appointed Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, has committed to continuing support to the Centre so as to help sustain its work, Chief Executive Officer of the facility,Cheap Jerseys, Mr Mohamad Ali, has revealed plans for an expanded service.Already expansion works have commenced. According to Ali some US$4 million have already been expended and an equal sum is likely to be spent to complete ongoing works. These works, according to him,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, will cater to improving and expanding the dialysis service being offered in addition to a number of other crucial health care services.These, according to him, will include: cardio/stroke, paediatric, general surgery among others.While the Centre will continue to benefit from overseas expertise, Ali noted that moves will shortly be made to recruit other qualified medical experts.? “We cannot run any good hospital without having good qualified people so our intention is to start to source and to train and to develop people; we cannot wait until we are finished then to start to look for people,” said Ali.Aside from training, the CEO said that detailed in a five-year strategic plan are the measures through which the entity will secure financing, among other things, to complete ongoing works including the acquisition of needful machines.And according to him, it is expected that the expanded facility will be ready to offer its expanded service before the end of next year.