A CEBUANO congresswoman has filed a bill requiring all national, regional, and provincial government hospitals to establish, operate, and maintain a dialysis ward that will provide free dialysis treatment to indigent patients during the first regular session of the 19th Congress.
"Napakinabangan natin nang husto ang malalaking specialty hospitals gaya ng Heart Center, Lung Center, Children’s Hospital at National Kidney and Transplant Institute. Kaya maliwanag na hindi lang dapat dito sa National Capital Region, kundi maging sa ibang parte ng bansa kailangan magdagdag ng ganitong uri ng mga pagamutan," part of the President Marcos' SONA reads.
The lawmaker stressed that kidney failure is the ninth leading cause of death in the country, especially in the indigenous sector, emphasizing that an increase of about 10 to 20 percent of new patients undergoing dialysis in 2018 has been noted by some experts.