The IPNA Sister Center Committee is delighted to announce that in 2022 we have been able to award again 2 successful applications. Congratulations go to National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Philippines supported by Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia and Cornwall Regional Hospital, Jamaica supported by Children’s National Hospital, Washington/USA. We look forward to hearing about their joint activities!
A Review of Literature on Kidney Care in Jamaica and Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries By Nadia McLean and O’Neal Malcolm Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.The global burden of CKD is estimated at 500 million people worldwide, with the majority of people with CKD (80%) living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) …
JAMAICANS suffering from chronic or end-stage kidney disease must fork out up to $2 million a year for treatment (dialysis) to remove excess fluid and impurities from the bloodstream or face an unthinkable alternative — death. Even at that, 3,000 people are currently on dialysis at least twice per week, typically paying $7,500 per treatment at the University Hospital of …
The Yuletide season, during which men and women emphasise goodwill, caring, and love for each other — as promised in the birth of Jesus the Christ — will have special meaning this Christmas for Mr Christopher Seaga, adopted son of the late Prime Minister Edward Seaga. Battling stage four, or end-stage kidney failure, which threatened his life, the younger Seaga is …
Jonathan was delivered at home during the West Kingston Incursion of 2010. In the first few months of life he became severely malnourished and at 6 months old he was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure from abnormal blocked kidneys (obstructive kidney disease). He was very ill at that time and was hospitalized for nearly two years. His kidney failure progressed …
Dr. Maolynne Miller became Jamaica’s first paediatric nephrologist in 1984 and is the Founder and Chairperson of the Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation (JKKF). A former Associate Lecturer and Paediatric Nephrologist at the University of the West Indies and University Hospital of the West Indies (30 years), she now works full time at her private paediatric nephrology practice at 8 Carvalho …
