Prevention of Kidney Diseases

Support for Kidney Disease Patients in Pakistan.

Fatima Memorial Hospital has been providing healthcare services to patients from all walks of life since 1977 and the number has recently hit the mark of 10.04 million patients. The Nephrology Department at Fatima Memorial Hospital realizes the global rise in diseases pertaining to renal function and has been contributing in order to share the crippling burden of said disease.

Fatima Memorial Hospital is providing the following services pertaining to Kidney Diseases:

• 2 outpatient clinics per week catering to more than 500 patients monthly at a very nominal fee ( PKR 200 or 0.75 USD) under the supervision of trained nephrologists
• 24 hours in-patient services to the admitted patients
• 24 hours emergency services to more than 900 patients per month visiting the emergency room with kidney problems
• Procedures including kidney biopsies, temporary and permanent hemodialysis catheter insertion, peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion,
• The majority of the procedures are done free of cost, and a well-equipped hemodialysis unit provides services including emergency dialysis initiation to the admitted and walk-in patients.
• The hemodialysis unit caters to around 40 permanently enrolled patients undergoing twice or thrice weekly hemodialysis.
• More than 4500 hemodialysis sessions were done in the last year out of which more than 2000 hemodialysis sessions were done free of cost and the rest were provided at cost only.
• The unit is equipped with 11 hemodialysis machines (including 5 machines for patients suffering from hepatitis C, 5 machines for non-hepatitis patients, and 1 for hepatitis B-positive patients).
•  7 of our machines on average have more than 50000 running hours which is far more than their average working life of 10-20,000 hours.

 Syed Kashif Ali was brought to Fatima Memorial Hospital 15 years back when he faced kidney failure. As he was undergoing Dialysis Treatment, he also suffered a life-threatening Brain Hemorrhage which compelled for him to be put on a ventilator in Fatima Memorial Hospital's High Dependency Unit (HDU). He recovered miraculously within two weeks. Kashif now receives regular dialysis treatment at the hospital. Not only that, he was also enabled to earn a livelihood for his family by the hospital management as he works as Front Desk Officer. This was made possible by the donations of people from around the globe. 

Kashif is one of many such cases that are being provided care at Fatima Memorial Hospital and we aim to expand the service capacities in the future to come with your support which we hope will continue indefinitely.

Considering the global burden of disease and an increase in the number of kidney patients all over the world as well as in Pakistan, the available resources are not enough to meet the needs of an increasing number of patients day by day. Fatima Memorial Hospital has catered to more than 10,000 patients in the last year under our Nephrology Department. 

Most of the hemodialysis units including ours are working to their maximum capacity and still a long list of patients is there that are not able to find a permanent hemodialysis center due to the non-availability of slots. Most such patients unfortunately die or go from emergency to emergency in search of hemodialysis sessions.

• To overcome this problem, and to help the patients in need, we at Fatima Memorial Hospital initiated a Peritoneal Dialysis (home dialysis) program which is giving patients the liberty to use an alternate mode of dialysis and to overcome long waiting lists for hemodialysis.
• The peritoneal Dialysis unit at Fatima Memorial Hospital is being supervised by Trained Doctors and trained peritoneal dialysis nurses and technicians who are actively involved in giving training/workshops to nurses and doctors from all over Pakistan.
• With the help of support, we have been able to save lives and provide home-based peritoneal dialysis.
• We are collaborating to provide an automated peritoneal dialysis machine also for nighttime dialysis.

Donation Needed For

Approximate Cost (US$)

Single Hemodialysis session & Medicines - 40 $ (one month: 350 $)

Temporary Hemodialysis Catheter Insertion - 40 $

Permanent Hemodialysis Catheter & Insertion - 200 $

Kidney Biopsy Including Histopathology - 70 $

Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter & Insertion - 700 $

Peritoneal dialysis per month - 350 $

Hemodialysis Machine - 10,000 $

Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Machine - 3000 $

We look forward to our esteemed donors to support the cause and help us treat the maximum number of patients.