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Manila hospital gets 10 new dialysis machines

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The Manila City government has acquired and installed 10 additional dialysis machines at the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center to serve the increasing number of patients with kidney diseases. 

Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada said the 10 new dialysis machines were installed at the center to provide free and quality dialysis treatment as part of the city’s medical expansion program to serve poor patients suffering from kidney ailments.

Estrada said the increase of dialysis patients mirrors the rising number of deaths due to kidney failure, noting that patients requiring dialysis services have grown from 100 to 200 a day since 2013.

Estrada chose GABMMC as the city’s dialysis center because of its proximity to Tondo, Manila’s poorest district.

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“Kidney dialysis is so expensive, and only a few can afford to go to private hospitals so it is the duty of the city government to help and support its constituents. I have ordered the expansion of the dialysis center at the medical center to ease the financial burden of many Manileños,” Estrada said.

“The average cost of dialysis treatment is nearly P3,000 and it can even go as high as P4,000 in major private hospitals. And that is only for one session. Each patients need at least three times a week,” he added.

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