Heatwave and drought a dangerous mix for dialysis patients in remote communities

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• As Australia endures another heatwave, chronic water shortages are endangering life-saving kidney tr

• t Kintore, 530km west of Alice Springs, Purple House raised funds to install a chiller tank inside the clinic to cool water overnight in an air-conditioned room.

• n most of our communities, where we don’t have chillers, we were having to limit dialysis to one shift a day, whereas before we could do two,

• We need to start talking to these for-profit companies about really lifting their game to fight with us for technology which is more robust, cheaper and more sustainable and uses less water.”