(11 Mar 2025)
KENYA MOBILE DIALYSIS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Murang’a, Kenya – 22 February 2025
1. Various of exterior of mobile dialysis unit
2. Various of interior of unit with medics working and patients receiving dialysis
3. SOUNDBITE (Kikuyu) Eliud Mwangi, 63-year-old dialysis patient:
"Let me say that the distance that I had been traveling has been reduced to less than three-quarters. Now the dialysis is near me, less than 20 minutes from my home. It is very near to me. So this has saved me time and the money I was using. Then after dialysis, I had the challenge of feeling dizzy because of the long distance. But now that the distance has shortened, I will not be having those challenges. I will be finishing and going home to rest."
4. Various of activities inside unit and patients receiving dialysis
5. Various of Naom Monari founder and CEO of Benacare, the organisation behind the units
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Naom Monari, Founder and CEO of Benacare:
"In 2023, we conducted research into the modalities available for the treatment of chronic kidney diseases in Murang’a County and we identified critical gaps in access to healthcare for these patients, especially patients who are having to travel like an average of 250 kilometers one way to receive dialysis and then they have to do it twice a week for the rest of their lives and so, we thought there has to be another way to solve this. So we came up with a model of having mobile dialysis and that is mobile hemodiafiltration moving from community to community and offering this service to the patients. And this is the first mobile truck we have launched."
7. Various of Monari talking to colleagues outside the unit
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Naom Monari, Founder and CEO of Benacare:
"We are going to be doing about 144 sessions a week of dialysis, so it has a maximum capacity of 72 patients if we do day and night."
9. Various of Monari listening to colleagues
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Naom Monari, Founder and CEO of Benacare:
"People have faced issues with accessibility due to geography and so this advantage is it is bringing it to them. They do not have to go. It is like when you have a chronic kidney disease, it shouldn’t mean, like chronic travel."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 26 February 2025
11. Various of Dr Jonathan Wala, Nephrologist and President of the Kenya Renal Association
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Jonathan Wala, Nephrologist and President of the Kenya Renal Association:
"The advantages are that it brings the dialysis services closer to the people, to the patients who need them. It enables the patients to cut down on their transportation costs. It decreases the strain on resources in hospitals which are already a little bit stretched. The disadvantages are one: how to handle emergencies in case it occurs in a mobile dialysis unit; what you are going to do. The second is how you are going to schedule a mobile dialysis unit so that it reaches those patients twice a week. Obviously, there is the cost of taking the mobile unit there. It still has the same cost of nursing auxiliary services that any other unit has and finally how do you manage the waste."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Murang’a, Kenya – 22 February 2025
13. Various of exterior shots of mobile dialysis unit
STORYLINE:
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A shortage of dialysis centers in Kenya means patients with kidney failure often have to travel long distances to be treated.
Now, an organization is starting to ease that burden with an innovative mobile dialysis unit.
STORYLINE
It’s dialysis on wheels.
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