Our Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui also has what is currently the largest dialysis center, headed by Dr. Robert NAJEM, President of the Arab Society of Nephrology and kidney transplantation, throughout Beirut. Opened as the first dialysis station in Lebanon in 1969, it treats more than 80 patients suffering from acute kidney failure and who depend on our help every month.
With access to healthcare severely restricted for most of the Lebanese population and individuals unable to pay hospital bills, dialysis patients and their families are left frustrated, anxious, tired and worried about their survival.
Patients who are dependent on permanent dialysis are also very limited in their freedom and quality of life. They are dependent on caregivers and have major disruption in professional, marital, family and social life. This leads to a reduction or loss of financial income with physical, psychological, socio-economic and environmental consequences and an impairment of the quality of life.
Since our hospital is still one of the few large university hospitals in Beirut that continues to provide healthcare services to these patients in line with its mission and values, this commitment comes at an unsustainable cost for our hospital.
In view of our financial situation, our limited resources and without any government support, we are calling fo help on behalf of these patients, because our dialysis station is vital for these around 80 patients. As long as the financial and economic situation in Lebanon does not improve, these patients are dependent on your help.
We hope and believe, that with your help we can continue our 54-year mission in the field of hemodialysis for Lebanese patients.
“He who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe