After resolving operational issues with the water treatment plant of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General University Hospital’s Hemodialysis Service, dialysis treatment for patients resumed.
According to the deputy director of the hospital giant, Dr. Sara Liz Ricardo Suárez. “Although patients had been receiving treatment at the Lucía Íñiguez Landín Clinical and Surgical Hospital since the 24th. Our hemodialysis service has been restored. Even though work had begun from the moment the failure was detected.”
In restoring this vital medical service, Ricardo Suárez highlighted the collaboration of the Electric Company. The Provincial Department of Electromedicine, and the General Directorate of Health. As well as the contribution of the institution’s electrophysicians and the medical and nursing staff of the hemodialysis service.
He also stated that, in order to ensure the continuity of dialysis treatment. Which could be interrupted by inclement weather due to Hurricane Melissa. So patients living in hard-to-reach areas will be transported via Cubataxi on alternate days.
For those who have difficulty getting around due to the possibility of very heavy rains, conditions have been created for hospitalization. This service has 12 machines or artificial kidneys, where dialysis treatment is provided to more than 60 patients with advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
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