[QUOTE=Anonymous;4885]Thansks for your response Beth. Will look up the website that you gave me. Unfortunately my sister is not a candidate for peritoneal dyalysis as she has had a lot of abdominal surgery. The social workers here do not help with finding funding. You are very much on your own here.
I contacted Adcock Ingram in South Africa. They offer the Tina hemodialysis machine for home use, but it costs in the region of R13,000 to R15,000 to put in a purified water system into the house. As my sister is only renting and I’m hoping to bring her down to Cape Town at the end of the year, the cost just does not seem to be worth it for such a short period. Do you know which other hemodialysis machines do not need the installation of a purified water system?[/QUOTE]
Please advise me what happened in the meantime as my friend also need treatment in South africa
I am not a candidate for transplant and have no kidneys. If I lived in Africa I would die. This is horrible. Move to the US to save your sister’s life. You have 2 weeks? Shocking.
I wish I could tell a different story, but people who come to the U.S. thinking they can get dialysis when they can’t get it in their home country may be surprised to not be able to get dialysis here either. Dialysis is costly. Those who don’t have insurance or money to pay for it are not likely to find a clinic that will treat them for free. People who are undocumented have been told to return to their home country. People needing dialysis have died.
So far as the original question, in the U.S. companies that make dialysis machines usually sell them or rent them to dialysis clinics which train and provide the equipment and supplies to patients as well as providing consultation with nurses, social workers, and dietitians. I don’t believe these companies will sell machines to individuals. There are some companies that refurbish machines for people in other countries. I don’t know if they sell to individuals. Here’s a website for one of these companies: http://www.giamedical.com/
i have one that i no longer need if you are still looking for one its actually brand new it was purchase4d and i recieved a transplant within 2 weeks. fantasyfactory8217@yahoo.com