Mombasa's Coast General Hospital receives dialysis machines

A dialysis patient at the Coast General Hospital explains to Mombasa County Governor Hassan Ali Joho, Mvita MP Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir how he is getting better during a visit to the hospital after the hospital acquired a new machine for the disease. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

MOMBASA: James Karisa* is a teacher from Mazeras area of Mombasa County. The 48 year-old teacher is HIV positive and in February doctors diagnosed him with end-stage renal disease and he is forced visit Coast General Hospital for dialysis.

A doctors' report indicates one of his kidneys has failed and he needs a transplant but Karisa can counts himself one of the luckier ones because unlike 38 similar cases on the waiting list at the Coast General Hospital he is able to undergo dialysis treatment once a week at the facility.