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Posted April 10 2008 - Turks and Caicos - TCI National Kidney Foundation
Trish Selver has sent us news on their celebrations in the Caribbean. Click links to view
- YouTube review of planned events for WKD
- YouTube interview on World Kidney Day 2008 on the Caribbea Island Hop
Posted April 7 2008 - Fundacion Para el Nino Enfermo Renal (IFKF Council Member Guatemala)
FUNDANIER is a Foundation dedicated to the treatment of Guatemalan children with Renal Disease. As part of its work, the group educates families, medical students and physicians in training and is involved in research projects.
Supported by a group of parents of patients, the Fundación para el Niño Enfermo Renal (Foundation for children with kidney diseases) or FUNDANIER was established in 2003. The mission of FUNDANIER was to treat Guatemalan children with chronic renal diseases in a prompt, efficient, humane, and comprehensive manner, with a view towards decreasing the morbidity and mortality attributable to Established Renal Failure (ERF).
October 20, 2007 marked the opening ceremony at Roosevelt Hospital of the first Pediatric Hemodialysis Unit in Guatemala, named to honor Dr Richard L Siegler, a pediatric nephrologist from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA who was instrumental in the development and promotion of Pediatric Nephrology in Guatemala.
 The FUNDANIER team is as pictured at right:
Victoria Rodríguez-Dietitian, Ena de Gil (Hospital Roosevelt), Dr Walter Jiménez-Nephrologist, Claudia Lou -Child Life Specialist, Viviana de Rodas, Dr. Richard Siegler, Karen Siegler, Dr. Randall Lou –Nephrologist and Unit Director, Carlos Cuéllar –Nurse and Dr. Sayli Alvarez-Nephrologist.
 Other members of Fundanier Board of Directors at left: Viviana de Rodas, German Rodríguez, Dr Randall Lou, Claudia Salazar, and Iliana Peña with Dr. Richard L. Siegler and his wife, Karen Sigler.
We thank all who assisted us in creating this much needed facility for the children of Guatemala with chronic kidney disease.
Yours gratefully - Victoria Rodríguez - FUNDANIER Dietitian
Posted March 20 2008 - Kidney Wales Foundation and News from Wales UK
We started 2008 well with £60,000 arriving from benefactors and the following great news which makes us even happier. The Welsh Assembly Government announced a new dedicated Transplant Unit in Cardiff on 21 December 2007 following our successful People Like Us Campaign led by Allison John.
First phase proposes a 4 bed ward, created in accommodation not currently utilised on the Cardiff UHW site, to provide capacity for haemodialysis patients currently accommodated on Ward B5. This would then create additional transplant and renal surgery capacity and would allow for up to 115 transplants per year. These beds could be available by March/April 2008. The revenue cost for this is £2.41million
During the period 2010/2012 the Trust would undertake up to 140 transplants per year and this would be Phase 2 of the development. This phase would require 16 beds and the revenue cost would be £4.40million.
Phase 3 would require the full 21 beds to be available by 2012 and would allow for up to 160 transplants per year at a revenue cost of £5.85million.
The capital cost for the development is £4.27million. See our campaign history www.pluscampaign.blogspot.com
Posted February 20 2008 - Renal Replacement Therapy in Iran
(Mitra Mahdaveh IFKF Council Member, Iran)
See two articles recently published on Renal Replacement Therapy in Iran
(Mitra Mahdaveh is IFKF Council Member representing The Patient's Kidney Foundation of Iran)
Posted January 20 2008
 The Charity Foundation for Special Diseases has recently established its fourth Medical Center for Special Diseases in Tehran. The Center offers different dialysis wards for children and adults and specialized clinics - internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, gynecology, endocrinology and diabetes mellitus, ophthalmology, neurology, psychology, orthopedic, urology, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, nutrition, E.N.T. The Centre also offers radiology, laboratory, rehabilitation, and pharmacy services for the specialist needs of kidney patients. Plans are well advance for Health Workshops, patient programs and scientific meetings for the near future. We also plan to runeducational courses for doctors, paramedics and researches in the field of renal failure.
On 25 December 2007 the inauguration ceremony was held in presence of His Excellency Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the president of the Assembly of Distinction of the Expediency of the State, and former President of the I.R. of Iran, members of parliament, some ambassadors of foreign countries in Iran and kidneyl specialists, Board of Trustees, directors of CFSD, and the general public. At this ceremony a message from Anne Wilson, the IFKF Secretary/Treasurer was read, and distributed to the audience.
Posted December 15 2007
“Nutrition in Kidney disease” addresses nutritional support and dietetic concerns in patients with different kidney diseases and some underlying conditions, like diabetes, high blood pressure and high lipid profiles. In the first chapter, fundamentals of food programming have been discussed, step by step and all steps have been practiced in an example to be clear, to the maximum, for the reader. Subsequent chapters cover the following topics: Goals for diet therapy, Nutritional and dietetic recommendations, Pharmacologic considerations, Patient education and a Sample daily food program with fixed amount of calorie and macronutrients. This book can be useful for both patients and healthcare professionals who need to have practical knowledge and instrument to help patients with kidney diseases with their nutritional concerns. Written in Persian (Farsi), by Nassim Azadibakhsh M.Sc., advised by Shahnaz Atabak M.D. Ph.D and published by Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, Tehran, Iran.
Posted November 9 2007
Battle against organ trafficking - Kidney Foundation of Moldova
During last two years in collaboration with the Center of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant we have been implementing a program to combat organ trafficking in the Republic of Moldova. During the last ESOT Congress in Prague, October 2007, Dr. Michael Bos from Health Council of the Netherlands reported about more than 400 victims of organ trafficking in Moldova. Unfortunately, the Moldova Government is doing very little to combat organ trafficking.
We implemented a project in Mingir (Hincesti district) and are working in close collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM), World Health Organization (WHO), The Transplantation Society (TTS), other local and international organizations to start a large scale research project meaning to identify the real number of organ trafficking victims in Moldova. Professor Francis Delmonico, Medical Director of TTS and also WHO expert in the field of transplantation, will visit Moldova next year to update Moldova authorities on the global status of organ trafficking.
We are asking you to help us implement anti-trafficking activities (see attachment)
Kind regards - Dr Igor Codreanu Fundatia Renala, Moldova
Posted October 12 2007
Dr Karunan Kannampoyilil,
Director, Institute of Nova Kidney Foundation is organising a nation wide screening program in association with the Natinonal Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India.
 Meetings are organised to raise public awareness of CKD, talks given by various CKD health professionals and educational program for school children. We also run free screening for kidney and related diseases, blood pressure checks, urine examination for protein, serum creatinine combined with an education session. We are planning to give medicines free of cost to those who can not buy them, during this program in Ettumanoor la of Kottayam District in Kerala India. A similar program is planned all over India.
Posted August 30 2007
Marianne Vennegoor's letter to IFKF friends and colleagues with an update on her continuing recovery.
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