Northern Health Programs

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Island Lake Regional Renal Health

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As recently as 2005 if you required haemo dialysis and lived in one of the remote Island Lake Commmunities in Manitoba — it would have meant being uprooted out of your community and relocated to a large city like Winnipeg — separated from friends and family indefinitely.

Many of the Program's dialysis patients spent nearly a decade away from home and family and were not responding well to treatment while away from their home communities. With the institution of a local dialysis unit in the Island Lake area in 2005 patients repatriated home began to thrive.

The Program provides a model of care aimed at reducing the number of cases of diabetes and its devastating effects on entire communities through its outreach component.