PREMIER CONGRATULATES CAIRNS ROTARY CLUBS ON DIALYSIS DONATION.
Published Thursday, 07 December, 2006 at 04:08 PM
Premier and Minister for Trade
The Honourable Peter Beattie
Premier Peter Beattie today thanked the Cairns Earlville Rotary Club, in conjunction with the Cairns Mulgrave Rotary Club, for their generosity in raising $85,000 towards development of the new home dialysis training centre.
Mr Beattie also announced that more kidney patients in Far North Queensland will soon be able to undergo treatment in the comfort of their own home thanks to a new $250,000 home dialysis training centre.
“Renal disease is a major problem in Far North Queensland where the rate of growth in dialysis treatment at the Cairns Base Hospital was twice the national average last year,” Mr Beattie said.
Mr Beattie said the planned new facility will enable Cairns Base Hospital’s Renal Medicine Department to nearly double existing home dialysis training chairs for patients.
The new centre, to be built on the Cairns Base Hospital campus, will allow the hospital to expand its five existing home dialysis training chairs to nine chairs for haemodialysis (5 chairs) and peritoneal dialysis (4 chairs).
“Haemodialysis in the hospital can take up to six hours per session and has to be done three times a week.
“At home, you can do shorter sessions over more days, and undergo the treatment even while you sleep.
“That means a better quality of life with people avoiding lengthy visits to hospital, greater independence and the ability to return to work.’’
Mr Beattie said construction work was due to start early in the new year.
“I want to thank the Cairns Earlville and Cairns Mulgrave Rotary clubs for their public spiritedness in supporting this important health initiative.
“Their generosity will help a lot of people in Far North Queensland for many years to come.”
Mr Beattie accepted the $85,000 donation from Cairns Earlville Rotary Club Project Co-ordinator Collin Messervy in Cairns today.
Dr Murty Mantha, Cairns Base Hospital Director of Renal Medicine, said the hospital carried out 10,816 dialysis treatments during 2005 -- 12.4 per cent higher than the 9,626 treatments carried out in 2004.
“Cairns Base Hospital is the third busiest renal dialysis hospital in Queensland,” Dr Mantha said.
“Home dialysis is the best option for people with kidney disease because it allows them to reduce their dependence on hospital visits and pursue a more normal and active lifestyle while coping with their disease.
“As well as improvements in lifestyle, training a patient in home dialysis also offers substantial cost savings to the health system,” he said.
Cairns Base Hospital Renal Medicine Department currently has 22 patients undergoing home haemodialysis and around 40 patients undergoing home peritoneal dialysis.
“Most are in the Cairns area but some are as far away as the Cape and the Torres Strait,” Dr Mantha said.
“Each home haemodialysis machine costs around $18,000, while a home peritoneal dialysis machine costs about $10,000. These machines are provided free to patients and remain the property of Queensland Health.
“The cost of supporting home dialysis works out at about $10,000-$20,000 a year less per patient then doing dialysis in the hospital. “
Dr Mantha said only 12-15 per cent of Cairns Base Hospital haemodialysis patients currently did home haemodialysis.
“While this compares well with the national average of 13 per cent, we aim to achieve a 30 per cent home haemodialysis rate, “he said.
The Beattie Government has recognised the growth in demand for renal dialysis by making an additional $1.43 million available to the Renal Medicine Department in 2005-2006 and a further additional $507,000 in 2006-2007.
Thursday December 7, 2006
Media Contact:
Premier’s Office – 3224 4500
Cairns Hospital - Jim Guthrie
Senior Public Affairs Officer
Queensland Health
Ph: 4050 8320 or 0405 108 512
HOME DIALYSIS FACT SHEET
• A home dialysis training centre provides training for people in the procedures and use of the equipment necessary to dialyse themselves at home, increases their self-sufficiency and avoids their having to visit the hospital several times a week.
• Anyone who expresses a desire to dialyse themselves at home is accepted for training. The choice of dialysis methods – peritoneal dialysis or the more intensive haemodialysis – depends upon patient-related medical and non-medical factors.
• Peritoneal dialysis involves the insertion of a small tube in a patient’s stomach, through which dialysis fluid from a special bag can be flowed into the peritoneal cavity to cleanse the blood through a process called “exchange”. A machine is required to assist the flow between bag and stomach if peritoneal dialysis is to be done overnight.
• Haemodialysis involves filtering a patient’s blood through a machine, drawing it into the machine from an intravenous fistula and returning the filtered blood to the body.
• Home dialysis requires some alterations to the patient’s home plumbing and electrical systems. In the case of plumbing, additional piping and a reverse osmosis machine have to be installed to filter all water used for dialysis which has to be pure and sterile. In the case of electrical supply, back-up generators usually are installed to provide emergency back-up power. Queensland Health meets these costs.
• Once patients have been set up for dialysis at home, they are provided with an emergency contact, should anything go wrong that they cannot fix themselves. They are also visited at regular intervals, usually every three months, so that periodic maintenance can be carried out on the machines.
• Currently, the Cairns Hospital Renal Medicine Department has 22 patients undergoing home haemodialysis and around 40 patients undergoing home peritoneal dialysis. Most are in the Cairns area but some are as far away as the Cape and the Torres Strait.
• Each home haemodialysis machine costs around $18,000, while a home peritoneal dialysis machine costs about $10,000. These machines are provided at Queensland Health’s expense and remain the property of Queensland Health.
• The cost of supporting home dialysis works out at about $10,000-$20,000 a year less per patient then doing dialysis in the hospital.
Mr Beattie also announced that more kidney patients in Far North Queensland will soon be able to undergo treatment in the comfort of their own home thanks to a new $250,000 home dialysis training centre.
“Renal disease is a major problem in Far North Queensland where the rate of growth in dialysis treatment at the Cairns Base Hospital was twice the national average last year,” Mr Beattie said.
Mr Beattie said the planned new facility will enable Cairns Base Hospital’s Renal Medicine Department to nearly double existing home dialysis training chairs for patients.
The new centre, to be built on the Cairns Base Hospital campus, will allow the hospital to expand its five existing home dialysis training chairs to nine chairs for haemodialysis (5 chairs) and peritoneal dialysis (4 chairs).
“Haemodialysis in the hospital can take up to six hours per session and has to be done three times a week.
“At home, you can do shorter sessions over more days, and undergo the treatment even while you sleep.
“That means a better quality of life with people avoiding lengthy visits to hospital, greater independence and the ability to return to work.’’
Mr Beattie said construction work was due to start early in the new year.
“I want to thank the Cairns Earlville and Cairns Mulgrave Rotary clubs for their public spiritedness in supporting this important health initiative.
“Their generosity will help a lot of people in Far North Queensland for many years to come.”
Mr Beattie accepted the $85,000 donation from Cairns Earlville Rotary Club Project Co-ordinator Collin Messervy in Cairns today.
Dr Murty Mantha, Cairns Base Hospital Director of Renal Medicine, said the hospital carried out 10,816 dialysis treatments during 2005 -- 12.4 per cent higher than the 9,626 treatments carried out in 2004.
“Cairns Base Hospital is the third busiest renal dialysis hospital in Queensland,” Dr Mantha said.
“Home dialysis is the best option for people with kidney disease because it allows them to reduce their dependence on hospital visits and pursue a more normal and active lifestyle while coping with their disease.
“As well as improvements in lifestyle, training a patient in home dialysis also offers substantial cost savings to the health system,” he said.
Cairns Base Hospital Renal Medicine Department currently has 22 patients undergoing home haemodialysis and around 40 patients undergoing home peritoneal dialysis.
“Most are in the Cairns area but some are as far away as the Cape and the Torres Strait,” Dr Mantha said.
“Each home haemodialysis machine costs around $18,000, while a home peritoneal dialysis machine costs about $10,000. These machines are provided free to patients and remain the property of Queensland Health.
“The cost of supporting home dialysis works out at about $10,000-$20,000 a year less per patient then doing dialysis in the hospital. “
Dr Mantha said only 12-15 per cent of Cairns Base Hospital haemodialysis patients currently did home haemodialysis.
“While this compares well with the national average of 13 per cent, we aim to achieve a 30 per cent home haemodialysis rate, “he said.
The Beattie Government has recognised the growth in demand for renal dialysis by making an additional $1.43 million available to the Renal Medicine Department in 2005-2006 and a further additional $507,000 in 2006-2007.
Thursday December 7, 2006
Media Contact:
Premier’s Office – 3224 4500
Cairns Hospital - Jim Guthrie
Senior Public Affairs Officer
Queensland Health
Ph: 4050 8320 or 0405 108 512
HOME DIALYSIS FACT SHEET
• A home dialysis training centre provides training for people in the procedures and use of the equipment necessary to dialyse themselves at home, increases their self-sufficiency and avoids their having to visit the hospital several times a week.
• Anyone who expresses a desire to dialyse themselves at home is accepted for training. The choice of dialysis methods – peritoneal dialysis or the more intensive haemodialysis – depends upon patient-related medical and non-medical factors.
• Peritoneal dialysis involves the insertion of a small tube in a patient’s stomach, through which dialysis fluid from a special bag can be flowed into the peritoneal cavity to cleanse the blood through a process called “exchange”. A machine is required to assist the flow between bag and stomach if peritoneal dialysis is to be done overnight.
• Haemodialysis involves filtering a patient’s blood through a machine, drawing it into the machine from an intravenous fistula and returning the filtered blood to the body.
• Home dialysis requires some alterations to the patient’s home plumbing and electrical systems. In the case of plumbing, additional piping and a reverse osmosis machine have to be installed to filter all water used for dialysis which has to be pure and sterile. In the case of electrical supply, back-up generators usually are installed to provide emergency back-up power. Queensland Health meets these costs.
• Once patients have been set up for dialysis at home, they are provided with an emergency contact, should anything go wrong that they cannot fix themselves. They are also visited at regular intervals, usually every three months, so that periodic maintenance can be carried out on the machines.
• Currently, the Cairns Hospital Renal Medicine Department has 22 patients undergoing home haemodialysis and around 40 patients undergoing home peritoneal dialysis. Most are in the Cairns area but some are as far away as the Cape and the Torres Strait.
• Each home haemodialysis machine costs around $18,000, while a home peritoneal dialysis machine costs about $10,000. These machines are provided at Queensland Health’s expense and remain the property of Queensland Health.
• The cost of supporting home dialysis works out at about $10,000-$20,000 a year less per patient then doing dialysis in the hospital.