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Free dialysis kits for kidney failure patients

October 25, 2013

FROM: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/10/25/free-dialysis-kits-for-kidney-failure-patients/

End-state kidney failure patients will be provided free treatment kits, costing RM19,000 a unit, to treat themselves at home.

KUALA LUMPUR: The government will provide free treatment kits, costing RM19,000 per unit, to patients with end-state kidney failure to carry out dialysis at home.

The Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) kits will enable patients to treat themselves at home.

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said the government realised the difficulty of patients with kidney failure in having to go to the haemodialysis centre for treatment thrice a week and spent up to RM400 for each treatment.

The government would continue to provide quality health care and medical services for the people and was allocating RM22.1 billion for the health sector, he said when tabling the 2014 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat today.

He said the allocation would be channelled for various programmes and projects, including the construction of Tanjung Karang Hospital and additional blocks for Jeli Hospital, as well as upgrading of the Kuala Lipis Hospital and 30 rural clinics.

The government, he said, had set up 234 1Malaysia clinics and another 50 to be set up next year.

In addition, the government would allocate RM66 million for the purchase of equipment and the construction of additional blocks at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, he added.

“To improve the quality of nursing care and reduce the nurses’ workload of working continuously in two shifts, the government will appoint 6,800 more nurses with an allocation of RM150 million,” he added.

He said an allocation of RM3.3 billion would also be made for the purchase of medicine and medical equipment to ensure patients receive appropriate treatment, including expanding the cardiothoracic services in the Ipoh, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan and Kuching hospitals.

To address the shortage of parking lots at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, he said, a total of 1,950 new parking lots would be completed next year.

He said hospitals in Rompin and Tampin, as well as the National Cancer Institute, would be operational next year.

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Carica papaya Leaves Juice Significantly Accelerates
the Rate of Increase in Platelet Count among Patients with
Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever

Soobitha Subenthiran,1 Tan Chwee Choon,2 Kee Chee Cheong,3Ravindran Thayan,4 Mok Boon Teck,1 Prem KumarMuniandy,1

Adlin Afzan,1 Noor Rain Abdullah,1 and Zakiah Ismail1

1 Bioassay Unit, Herbal Medicine Research Center, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2Department of Internal Medicine, Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, Jalan Langat, 41200 Klang, Malaysia

3 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

4Virology Unit, Infectious Disease Research Center, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang, 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Correspondence should be addressed to Soobitha Subenthiran; drsoobi@hotmail.com

Received 7 January 2013; Revised 21 March 2013; Accepted 21 March 2013

Academic Editor: Martin Kohlmeier

Copyright © 2013 Soobitha Subenthiran et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution

License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly

cited.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volume 2013, Article ID 616737, 7 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/616737

Submitted by Mr CS Soong

The study was conducted to investigate the platelet increasing property of Carica papaya leaves juice (CPLJ) in patients with dengue fever (DF). An open labeled randomized controlled trial was carried out on 228 patients with DF and dengue haemorrhagic fever

(DHF). Approximately half the patients received the juice, for 3 consecutive days while the others remained as controls and received the standard management. Their full blood count was monitored 8 hours for 48 hours. Gene expression studies were conducted on the ALOX 12 and PTAFR genes. The mean increase in platelet counts were compared in both groups using repeated measure ANCOVA. There was a significant increase in mean platelet count observed in the intervention group (𝑃 < 0.001) but not in the control group 40 hours since the first dose of CPLJ. Comparison of mean platelet count between intervention and control

group showed that mean platelet count in intervention group was significantly higher than control group after 40 and 48 hours of admission (𝑃 < 0.01). The ALOX 12 (FC = 15.00) and PTAFR (FC = 13.42) genes were highly expressed among those on the juice.

It was concluded that CPLJ does significantly increase the platelet count in patients with DF and DHF.

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A 2-year follow-up study of patients on automated peritoneal dialysis

C Shyam Sunder Rao¹, P Charan¹, G Diwaker Naidu¹, G Swarnalatha¹, R Ram², KV Dakshinamurty^1
1 Department of Nephrology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, Hyderabad, India
² Department of Nephrology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) is increasingly being used for the treatment of end stage renal disease. We present our experience of APD at a government run tertiary care institute. APD was initiated for 22 patients between 2002 and 2010. On comparing APD and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, no difference in patient survival and technique survival was observed. CAPD patients had higher number of peritonitis episodes, greater decline in the serum albumin and a greater number of patients failed to achieve adequacy targets compared to APD.

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