dialysis

For women whose kidneys do not work pregnancy is even harder on the body and more frequent dialysis is recommended to keep the blood as clean as possible.

There are drug treatments that can be given, as well as dialysis to clean the blood.

“The longer a young person is on dialysis, the more difficult their medical future will likely be.”

"I still see children dying on the floors of hospitals for the lack of hospital beds... and dialysis patients dying because there is no fuel allowed to get to hospitals."

Some patients need to be hooked up to a dialysis machine for up to three hours a day but power only gets restored for about an hour or two, sometimes after midnight.