A number of hospitals in Nyanza and Western regions are grappling with an increased demand for dialysis services from kidney patients who have moved to the rural areas in fear of contracting the coronavirus in Nairobi.The nationwide curfew has also reduced the number of hours available for patients to seek the services. Normally a single patient takes up to four hours on a machine for one dialysis session.After attending to a set of our patients, the doctors take up to two hours to clean up the system and prepare the machines for the next ones.

Source: Business Daily