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Improved technology for dialysis clients across the Kootenays

Sparwood Health Centre has six new state-of-the-art dialysis machines that will improve treatments for chronic kidney disease patients.
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Sparwood Health Centre with the new state of the art dialysis machine

Sparwood Health Centre has six new state-of-the-art dialysis machines that will improve treatments for chronic kidney disease patients.

Twenty-six new Gambro Artis hemodialysis machines have been installed in community dialysis units across the Kootenays.

These machines replace ageing equipment with state-of-the-art technology that makes dialysis more flexible and more efficient.

The machines cost $750,000 and were funded by the Ministry of Health through the BC Renal Agency, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority.

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