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Jeddah to establish Middle East's largest dialysis centre

The biggest dialysis centre in the Middle East, equipped with 140 machines to serve 800 patients daily, will be established in Jeddah at a cost of SR60 million.

  • Staff Report
  • Published: 08:40 June 29, 2009
  • Gulf News

Riyadh: The largest dialysis centre in the Middle East, equipped with 140 machines to serve 800 patients daily, will be established in Jeddah at a cost of SR60 million.

An Arab News report said that the centre will be named after the late Makkah governor, Prince Abdul Majeed, and will be fully funded by the Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Foundation For the Care of Kidney Patients.

Prince Abdul Aziz Ibn Salman, assistant minister of petroleum and mineral resources, who is the supervisor general of Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Society said the construction of the centre, will be completed within 18 months.

The three-story centre will be built on an area of 10,000 sq. meters at the King Fahd General Hospital in Jeddah. Its staff will include 17 consultants in nephrology, 34 resident-physicians and specialists in addition to 280 nurses.

It will have separate rooms for patients receiving dialysis treatment and will have an outpatient department. The centre will train patients and their family members on how to operate dialysis machines at home.

The centre will be fully equipped with a state-of-the-art laboratory, training centre, blood bank, counseling centre, pharmacy as well as consultation clinics and rooms.

Around 500 million people (10 percent of the world population) suffer from kidney problems and 90 percent of them have permanent kidney-related illnesses.

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