KUCHING: Welfare, Community Well-being, Women, Family and Childhood Development Ministry will soon start a research to finding ways to help patients who require haemodialysis.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah, said at a press conference here yesterday that a number of applications have been received from patients who can’t meet the high cost of using the facilities at private hospitals or medical centres.
She explained that they would use the study find out the number of patients and use the data to try to figure it out the number of machines and fund required.
Fatimah said her ministry would work together with the Ministry of Health to come up with a concrete proposal to be brought up to the Cabinet meeting.
“We need more concrete evidence showing the number of patients diagnosed with diseases that require haemodialysis so that during out Cabinet meeting the matter can be discussed properly until the remedial can be realised,” she said.
According to her, this is especially important for rural patients who have low income and far away from the medical facilities in urban centres.
“They need money for treatment and also to travel the distances to and from town,” she said.
“I would suggest medical centres in all districts to have at least one dialysis machine each.”
