dialysis

But his health started to deteriorate over the summer and he was diagnosed with kidney failure, leading to twice weekly dialysis.

She also said she went to see a patient in a dialysis unit and the windows were boarded up because they had come out.

Without water, dialysis centers and other medical facilities would be impaired.

Both Osborn and Meghan Chancey, the health department’s director, said they would rank many health care priorities higher, including the need for a general surgeon, an ICU, and a dialysis clinic.

He was able to get dialysis and, eventually, a transplant, thanks to the health insurance Maria gets through her job at the school district.