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SECTION 28 - PREVENTION, CARE AND AFTER CARE
including Renal Dialysis
Convalescent Treatment
Provision of Sickroom Equipment
Chiropody
Tuberculosis
Extra Nourishment
Cervical Cytology and Cancer Education
Geriatric Clinic
Marie Curie Memorial Foundation Fund
Renal
Dialysis
At 31st December 1969, six patients were receiving home dialysis.
As the limited number of beds in hospital dialysis units are always under
pressure it seems the Local Authorities will be called upon more
to supply facilities for this treatment at home once the patients are fully
trained in the use of the equipment in hospital. Patients will also be
dialysed at home while they are awaiting kidney transplant.
Recently a great deal of interest has been shown in portable
dialysis units, fully fitted, which can be lowered on to a site adjacent
to the home. For the short term selected case, this could offer many
advantages, the greatest of which is that the specially constructed unit
can be removed after a successful transplant and used for another
patient.
Recuperative
Holidays
This service was continued on similar lines as previous years.
The total number of cases sent away for a recuperative holiday
during 1969 was 102, ten less than in 1968.
The standard contribution towards the cost of the holiday remained
the same as last year, viz. £7.
Section 28
91 persons for 2 weeks 182 weeks
4 persons for 3 weeks 12 weeks
3 persons for 1 week 3 weeks
Total 197 weeks