National Renal Care opens specialised children’s dialysis unit in SA

SOUTH AFRICA – National Renal Care has established NRC KidneyKidz to serve the needs of paediatric renal patients in a family-centred, caring environment. National Renal Care has a network of 71 dedicated dialysis units around South Africa. The unit offers chronic haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and a mobile acute care team on call for inhospital acute therapies. The new unit uses the advanced digital healthcare technology of National Renal Care’s NephrOn system, which enhances patient safety and multidisciplinary collaboration through electronic medical records.

Children usually need two or three dialysis sessions per week, for three to four hours at a time. This is a considerable amount of time in a family’s busy schedule, so we try to make this unit a home away from home, according to paediatric nephrologist

GE HealthCare completes spin-off from GE

Errol Gottlich. He added that many children sleep during dialysis sessions but they have fun activities, games, and TV programmes to help them pass the time. A multidisciplinary team looks after patients’ medical and surgical needs, including access to a dietician where needed. This is in addition to NRC’s value-added services, including nutritional guidelines, patient education, and support groups for patients and their families.

USA – GE HealthCare has announced its successful spin-off of GE into a healthcare-focused business, effective January 4, 2023. In an official statement, the company said that it has completed the separation of its healthcare unit, launching GE HealthCare Technologies

Inc. (GE HealthCare), a global leader in Precision Care.

“This precision care strategy enables insights that help clinicians diagnose diseases and determine the most appropriate treatment – delivering the best possible outcome for the patient,”

GE highlighted. The multinational giant further said that GE HealthCare will trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) under the ticker symbol “GEHC” while GE will continue to trade on New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under ticker “GE”.

The conglomerate explained that the spinoff of GE HealthCare was achieved by GE’s pro rata distribution of approximately 80.1% of the outstanding shares of GE HealthCare to GE shareholders. GE further disclosed that it is retaining approximately 19.9 percent of the shares of GE HealthCare common stock. In addition, the global company disclosed that H. Lawrence Culp Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GE and CEO, GE Aerospace, will serve as non-executive Chairman of GE HealthCare.