Hospicare Dialysis Centre at Roodepoort invited their patients and families and kidney disease survivors to attend a wonderful and delicious kidney health awareness picnic at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden’s Lapeng Lapa on March 12. The community members, many hikers and families, were invited to get their free kidney health screening.
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The Hospicare team, who provided free health screenings to attendees, used this opportunity to inform the community that many dangerous kidney disorders can be silent.
Transplant Education for Living Legacies (TELL), raised awareness about organ and tissue donation.
A Living donor can save one person’s life and a deceased donor can save eight lives by means of organ donation and improve the quality of life of between 50 to 70 people with tissue donation.
Kidney disease symptoms include increased thirst, foamy urine, a swollen or puffy face, swelling of the hands and feet, a metallic taste when eating, and finally fatigue.
Delaine van Zyl, the event sponsor and COO at Hospicare Renal, welcomed and thanked co-sponsors while
Dr Makhotso Moabi, a local Nephrologist gave an educational talk about chronic kidney disease and the journey of dialysis and transplantation. Nicki Laue, a recent altruistic kidney donor’s letter was read and finally –
Stella de Kock from TELL spoke about having been on dialysis for 12 years.
