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Health Ministry gets approval to procure 7,887 dialysis consumables

The Ministry of Health has obtained approval from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to procure 7,887 dialysis consumables to be subsidized to patients.

The Minister of Health, Profe Ali Pate, informed newsmen that the consumables, to be distributed to seven tertiary hospitals, would address the rising prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, vascular, and other non-communicable diseases.

He said the beneficiaries were the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, the Federal Medical Centre in Ebuta Metta, Lagos, the Federal Medical Centre in Owerri, the National Hospital, Abuja, the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.

The Minister called on Nigerians to avert kidney diseases by avoiding factors causing cases of hypertension, and diabetes, which metamorphose to kidney disease.

Recently, the President of the Nigerian Association of Nephrology (NAN), Ifeoma Ulasi, said that 25 million Nigerians have kidney disease, calling for more attention to this life-threatening condition and effective treatment in health systems.

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