Many of those who are rescued alive will go into acute kidney failure because of their injuries. Many patients with chronic kidney failure on regular life-maintaining dialysis treatment will not be able to do so; their dialysis centres no longer exist.
The Hong Kong Kidney Foundation has set up an Emergency Kidney Support Fund for Sichuan Disaster to support emergency dialysis treatment with life-threatening acute kidney failure and urgent rebuilding of destroyed dialysis centres.
“The fund supervised by a subcommittee of HKKF will support projects nominated by the renal centres in Sichuan / Sichuan Society of Nephrology / China Society of Nephrology.
“It will be a direct point-to-point support with the required equipments and consumables paid for in Hong Kong and for the goods to be delivered by companies in China directly to designated centres in Sichuan.
“The fund is available immediate for use. The first lot of consumables was delivered on 20 May 2008. The project will be closely monitored and audited by external auditor.
“All donated money will be used for the relief projects (no commission fee by HKKF).”
Read the announcement in full (PDF, 525 kB)
Hong Kong Kidney Foundation website
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