Renal Unit News Today

The effects in an obese population without diabetes and low rates of kidney disease suggest a 'potential role in the primary prevention of CKD.'

The recent hike in the cost of dialysis treatment at the nations premier public health facility, the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, could not have come at a worse time for Ghanaians grappling with malfunctioning kidneys.

It will go directly to fund the running and upkeep of the Traccia software

Jospong Group Supports 3 Dialysis Units With Ghc500,000

The Jospong Group of Companies has presented separate amounts totalling almost GH¢500,000 to three renal facilities in Accra.

The Renal Dialysis unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has yet again accumulated an amount of GH₵2 million in debt for treating kidney patients.

A kidney which is now 108 years old has kept the woman who received it in a transplant alive for half a century.

Sue Westwood has an 108-year-old kidney - the world's oldest transplant kidney - which was transplanted from her mum 50 years ago.

Pharmacist and Democracy and Development Fellow at CDD-Ghana, Kwame Sarpong Asiedu, has called on Parliament to haul the Minister of Health before the house to answer questions about the government’s failure to settle the indebtedness of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital's Renal Unit.

It is now 50-years since Sue Westhead, 75, was gifted the organ by her late mother Ann Metcalfe after she became poorly as a teenager.