Dialysis Patients – Refugees from Ukraine
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The Russian-Ukrainian war, which started in February 2022, posed an exceptionally high threat to approximately 10,000 Ukrainian dialysis patients due to disruptions in access to dialysis therapy in some parts of the country, and delayed delivery of drugs and equipment supplies. Many patients decided to leave Ukraine and sought further care in either neighboring or more distant countries.
In May-August 2022 the ERA Kidney Relief in Disasters Task Force conducted a survey on distribution, preparedness and management of adults requiring dialysis who were displaced due to the war. Original data of 602 patients were gathered.
This follow-up study may lead to a better understanding of the situation of this vulnerable population and may enable a more accurate response to the needs of these patients in the future.
This survey is addressed to all dialysis centers across Europe, including those which may not have participated in the first assessment – with the request to report on any patient from Ukraine who initiated dialysis in your center after February 24, 2022. If there were no Ukrainian refugee patient dialyzed in your unit, we still request responses to first few questions of the survey, which will help us to assess distribution of patients from Ukraine and response rate in this study.
Please answer this survey separately for all patients which you received after February 24th, 2022.
Thank you for your time and commitment,
The members of the ERA Kidney Relief in Disasters Task Force