Kidney Dialysis Center Project

KDC Trichur inaugurated

Kuwait:  Kuwait Kerala Muslim Association (KKMA), the leading social welfare organization of Indian nationals in Kuwait has opened its second charitable KKMA Kidney Dialysis Center (KDC) in Trichur district of Kerala State.

The KKMA Kidney Center, a joint venture between Kuwait based social welfare organization of Indian nationals and Daya General Hospital in Kerala was inaugurated on Wednesday, August 14th 2007 by Dr. Mohammad Ghareeb Hatem, Corporate Relations manager of EQUATE Petrochemical Company.  Dr. Hatem is also the chairman of KKMA’s Indo Arab Relations Committee. 

The inaugural function held in this regard at Daya was inaugurated by Therambil Ramakrishnan, member of legislative assembly and presided over by Prof. R. Bindu, city mayor of Trichur corporation.  Dr. A.C. Velayuthan, managing director of Daya Hospital and Dr. V.K. Abdul Aziz, managing director of Daya Charitable trust jointly received documents of three brand new dialysis machines offered by KKMA.

The KDC Trichur is a part of KKMA’s visionary project to have one KDC in every district of Kerala State, India.   The first of its kind center was opened at IQRAA International Hospital and Research Center in the city of Calicut in June last year.

Speaking at the inaugural function, Sageer Trikarpur, chairman of KKMA said that joining hands with Daya General Hospital will help KKMA to help needy poor dialysis patients to have their dialysis procedures at minimal cost of Rs. 400 or less per procedure.  A joint Management Supervisory Committee of KKMA and Daya will look after the day to day administration of the Center.

Akbar Siddique, vice chairman of KKMA mentioned that the third KKMA Kidney Center will be opened in Malappuram by end of this year.  Shabeer Mandoly, working president of KKMA, K. Basheer, secretary KKMA, E.K. Abdulla, joint coordinator and other officials from KKMA also attended the function.  Representing various organizations, K. Parameswaran, C.H. Abdul Rasheed, K.K. Valsaraj, P. Gopalan, Baby John, Dayanandan Mampally, Smt. Saseendra Viswanathan felicitated the function.

Renal Dialysis is the process of filtering and removing toxic waste products from the blood when the kidneys malfunction or fail. Patients typically receive dialysis treatment three times-a-week, each session lasting an average of 3 to 5 hours. 

The Charitable Kidney Center Project is KKMA’s visionary project to have one KDC in every district of Kerala State, India.