dialysis

“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.

Fatu’s father told the station that he was a good and loving child who was on dialysis and recently received a new kidney.

Four years later he is still on dialysis three times a week and hoping to receive a kidney donor.