Background: Dialysis is a treatment of choice to alleviate severe complications of end-stage renal disease. Renal failure is the most prevalent worldwide among diabetic, hypertensive, and where infective diseases are frequent. The study aimed to assess the prevalence of patients having three standard dialysis sessions weekly at University Teaching hospital of Butare dialysis centre from June 2013 to June 2014.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study used routine hospital data from university teaching hospital of Butare dialysis unit and its size were 110 patients who fulfilled the study inclusion criteria. Secondary data were collected using a checklist with different variables like age, sex, profession, health insurances, acute renal failure, chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, glomerular disease sepsis, severe dehydration, frequency of dialysis per week and outcomes like renal recovery, death, stopping treatment and being referred. Data were analysed using SPSS software.Results: The findings showed that 40.9% of patients received three or above dialysis sessions per week and 59.1% of patients received less than three sessions per week.Conclusions: The study concluded on inadequacy dialysis treatment and recommended further studies to explore more about this inadequacy.
At the end of December 2019, the Chinese public health authorities reported several cases of acute respiratory syndrome in Wuhan City, Hubei province, China. Chinese scientists soon identified a novel coronavirus as the main causative agent. The disease is now referred to as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the causative virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 12th, 2020. COVID-19 propagates quickly and threatens the population at large; around 20% of affected populations have presented severe forms of the diseases. In China approximately ~5% cases became critical patients in need of admission to intensive-care units. The need for intensive care has led to unprecedented overcrowding in hospitals, with catastrophic situations witnessed in Italy and other countries. The highest mortality rates have been witnessed amongst the elderly with several comorbidities. In this viewpoint we draw lessons from the implementation of population containment measures, vulnerable people protection and relevant public health pillars in China. We then discuss how these lessons can or cannot be applied to other settings.
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