Health Ministry looking at other means to provide dialysis services for chronic patients outside of Suva

Minister for Health, Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete says they are looking at other means to provide dialysis services for chronic patients outside Suva after the opening of the Fiji National Kidney Dialysis Centre in Nadera last week.

While responding to Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Veena Bhatnagar’s question on the Centre, Dr. Waqainabete says the Dialysis Centre has the capacity to look after 40 patients a week and they also have the capacity to increase the sessions to 180 a week.

He says the centre has 10 dialysis machines.

The Minister adds this has allowed growth in the field of nephrology as they have also filled 2 nephrology consultant positions within the Ministry.