Renal care in Seychelles gets big boost |01 April 2015

Local and visiting patients can expect world class dialysis now that AMSA Renal Care, the world’s leading renal care providers based in Dubai, UAE, will as from today take over the management of the renal care facilities in Seychelles.

Making the announcement yesterday, the Health Care Agency (HCA) of the Ministry of Health said since its inception, the agency has remained committed to providing quality health care to the people of Seychelles, and started identifying areas in the current health care facilities that needed improvement.

One such area is renal care. Because of high number of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases there is an increasing threat of chronic kidney failure. Today the number of dialysis patients in Seychelles is approximately 125 and this would grow by 20% every year.

With an annual dialysis cost for local patients around US $3.5 million yearly, it was imperative to bring in an acclaimed renal care facility to usher in the required changes.

A dedicated team of the HCA under the guidance of its chief executive Dr Suresh Menon on the behest of President James Michel, started studying possible solutions. Dr Menon, with vast experience of managing health care facilities across various countries and his team, in order to extract maximum benefit possible, went into rigorous scrutiny, lengthy and meticulous discussions deliberating every possible angles with a shortlist of the world’s renal care providers, before agreeing on the engagement of AMSA Renal Care for a five-year period.

AMSA Renal Care, with a distinction of ZERO mortality rate since its inception will:

• Invest US $10 million in the next 5 years;

• Provide professional guidance required to bring up the quality of service to world-class level with best practices, protocols and policies;
 
• Ensure quality by bringing NKF and ERA/EDTA accreditation;

• Bring world class nephrologists/internal medicine specialists and general practitioners in the country;

• Conduct professional trainings for existing staff and doctors;

• Induct holiday dialysis with its access of 50,000 dialysis patients across the world.