Dialysis training machines handover

Three training dialysis machines for a programme to provide kidney patients with home dialyis machines will be officially handed over to Beaumont Hospital this evening by the Punchestown Kidney Research Fund.

The fund was set up by local businessman James Nolan, a kidney transplant recipient, and is helped locally each year by a charity race at Punchestown Racing Festival as well as a group of Kilcullen area women who participate in the Flora Womens Mini Marathon.

The machines cost almost €33,000 and are being used by 14 patients who hope to have home dialysis units, saving them having to go to hospital three times a week.

"This will free up resources in the hospital dialysis units," says James. "They are at full stretch just now, working 24/7."