I am glad that my current dialysis nurses had given me the endorsement letter which would serve for me on how I will be getting my treatment for my dialysis clinic. It indicates the dialyzer that I would use, how many times I am getting dialysis treatment per week, in what specified machine that I would use because I am infectious and details such as the blood flow rate and the medicines that I am taking, etc. It will guide the new dialysis center on how I would continue my treatment so that there would be a smooth transition to prevent errors which could mean further complications.
As I had stated before in my past posts about it, I will be enjoying an absolutely free service from my town's upcoming dialysis clinic which is quite big compared to the other dialysis clinic because of its capacity of 15 machines or so. It might serve the whole number of dialysis patients here in our town which is about 83 patients although I know that not all will not be planning to transfer because you know, some people just doesn't want to change their routines and would prefer to stay in their respective dialysis clinics although it costs them a lot.
There is a disadvantage of going to a standalone dialysis clinic, it means that the clinic has no affiliation to hospitals where they can refer the patients in the event that the patients needed to temporarily move or transfer to another clinic if some problems would arise in the future. It will be up to the patients where they would go and it is just a very inconvenient thing to do if not worrisome to experience because we might be likened to chick in a very rain with no nest to take some shelter from and a hen that would give us warmth.
The new municipal dialysis clinic might also turn like the provincial dialysis clinic where the service had gotten degraded already because of the overwhelming number of patients that piled-up over the queue or lines of patients which would have to wait for hours before they would get their turn for their dialysis. It is what dialysis patients do not want to happen, having a degraded service because it will make their lives more at risk of complications and even immediate death. I am now praying that God would bless the hearts, minds, thoughts, and feelings of the ones that will be involved in operating the dialysis clinic because I will be going there soon if God wills it.
But I had made my choice because of the ease that it would give me and my parents because my father is already complaining about having trouble of driving me to and from the dialysis center because the distance of my current dialysis clinic is about two towns away and if it gets rainy my father would always worry about the car in having some trouble about crossing the flooded streets. That is why my dialysis schedule had moved from being scheduled at early dawn to being in the morning where we would go back and forth while the sun is still up.
The new dialysis center is also offering free dialyzer change considering that I use a high flux dialyzer (the filter for the blood) which costs a leg and arm to replace. I only use two dialyzers per month where one of it is paid by cash and the other one is I will have to pay one-thousand pesos because I will be converting the Philhealth-allocated low flux dialyzer to a high flux type of dialyzer and that is how the current dialysis clinic charges me and if you would calculate the extra charges like the dialysis fees per month plus my payment for opting-in to use a better dialyzer, it will amount into a substantial sum of money.
EPO injections will also be free of charge and that is like a heavenly gift for patients that relies on EPO injections just to jeep their hemoglobin and RBC count in check and not go below the tolerance levels. Erythropoietin hormone is a factor for giving patients strength because the body cells are efficiently getting oxygenated to allow it to use the nutrients that it gets from the food we eat. Think about it as the oxygen supply of a stove, if you cut off the air, then the fire would die-out. So if the body's cells would not get oxygen it needs particularly the heart and the brain, well something terrible would happen leading to death.
One fine example of that is when one of my friends in a different dialysis clinic died because he was unable to get a blood transfusion because of the lack of guidance from the former nurses and the doctor that operates that former dialysis clinic which already discontinued many years ago. That patient actually go the bags of blood he was told to get maybe using Red Cross blood which can be attained if you have donor cards where you will get one bag of blood per two donor cards. After he got the blood he do not know what to do with it because he was not told to go to a laboratory clinic to have it cross-matched with his blood in order to get the possibility of blood transfusion. Sadly he died because the blood just got spoiled and he died needlessly a few days after due to lack of level of blood in hi system.
Zero-billing is what the new dialysis clinic from our Municipal government is offering and it is like music into my ears. Not only we will be going to a much nearer dialysis clinic with free EPO injections and free dialyzer replacement, I will not be paying dialysis treatment fees anymore which just means a substantial savings for me and I could use those savings for buying other things like the supplements that me and my parents use as well as one of the best vitamins that acts like a magic bullet for my Leontiasis Ossea condition of my bone. With these savings I can also afford to buy healthier foods like fruits and vegetables which are now basically out of reach by people because of their uncontrollable costs.
I just hope that what future problems that could arise will not happen because this is a government dialysis clinic, it is still not clear to me how it would operate and why they can give such privileges especially for me which is a PWD or maybe that I am just used to paying and paying. But what I know is that dialysis treatment under our country's Philhealth insurance is totally free where patients will not have to worry about extra charges but only in some standalone dialysis clinics whereas if you will get treated in a tertiary hospital where you will experience like you are not using any health insurance for the reason of unbelievable high cost per treatment, and it is the reason I never went back to the original dialysis center I went for my first dialysis treatment. Still I am very excited about it and may God guide and give more talent and wisdom for the healthcare professionals which would save us patents from the financial weight we carry on our backs and the possible better well-being that we would achieve from the new dialysis clinic made possible by our town's mayor, God bless her.
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