FYI: DSHS News Release: Toll-Free Number Announced for Displaced Dialysis Patients

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Texas Department of State Health Services

NEWS RELEASE

August 19, 2007

Toll-Free Number Announced for Displaced Dialysis Patients

Kidney dialysis patients who may be evacuating from Texas coastal areas in

advance of Hurricane Dean can call toll-free to locate dialysis

services en route or in the areas to which they have evacuated.

The emergency locator service will begin at 8 a.m. Monday and will be

operational round-the-clock. The service is provided by the Texas End Stage

Renal Disease Network and the Texas End Stage Renal Disease Emergency Coalition.

Dialysis patients also are encouraged to receive dialysis from their regular

providers shortly before evacuating and to heed fluid-intake and dietary

precautions.

People on dialysis need to receive the blood-cleansing treatment three times a

week to stay alive.

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(News media: for more information contact Doug McBride, DSHS Press Officer,

Austin, .)

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