Renal failure patients die in Ibb and Hodeidah due to lack of services [Archives:2008/1209/Local News]

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November 20 2008

By: Saddam Al-Ashmori
For the Yemen Times

IBB , Nov. 17 ) The number of people who have died due to renal failure in Ibb since the renal center was established there in the beginning of 2007 amounted to 100, while people who suffer from the disease are over 500, according to Faisal Abdu Hassan, manager of the renal center. The manager said that the center suffers from a huge shortage of capabilities amid a big number of renal failure patients who resort to the hospital. He pointed out that many patients have died as they couldn't continue the process of dialysis [cleansing blood through a machine].

“Every day