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TWO new kidney dialysis centres providing are set to open in East Lancashire in the next 12 months. The long-awaited purpose-built ward at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, first promised for 2013, will now replace a portacabin from February next year. Another specialist new renal unit will open at Briercliffe Shopping Centre in Burnley in September 2021. The news of firm opening dates has been welcomed by Kevin McGee, chief executive of the East Lancashire NHS Hospitals Trust, and the leaders of Blackburn with Darwen and Burnley Council s Cllr Mohammed Khan and Cllr Mark Townsend. Dialysis treatment removes waste products and extra fluid from the blood, and is given to patients whose kidneys have stopped working properly. Patients undergo dialysis several times a week.