Nearly 11,000 post- secondary graduates in Saskatchewan will be getting their certificates for the provincial Graduate Tax Credit by the end of February. 43 Swift Current Dialysis Satellite Unit Dialysis patients in southwest Saskatchewan have life-saving treatment closer to home through the renal satellite program at the Swift Current Regional Hospital. Health Minister Pat Atkinson visited the hospital today to mark the official opening of the satellite dialysis centre for southwest Saskatchewan. Over the past two years, the number of satellites that are operational in the province has more than doubled.
Dialysis is necessary to keep patients with endstage renal disease alive.
Endstage renal disease is a condition in which all, or almost all, kidney function has disappeared.