Kidney failure patients to return to Dhofar

Energy Tuesday 29/May/2018 10:04 AM
By: Times News Service
Kidney failure patients to return to Dhofar

Muscat: The first flight to Dhofar carrying patients with kidney failure will start today, Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) announced.
A total of 125 patients who were evacuated before Cyclone Mekunu hit, will be sent back to Dhofar.
In a statement online PACDA said, “The National Emergency Management Centre announced the return of 125 patients and their escorts to Dhofar Governorate today, to continue their dialysis treatment at the Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah. [This was decided] only after it was confirmed that the [dialysis] unit was ready for work.”