Dialysis is a life-saving treatment to patients suffering from kidney failure. Each session of dialysis in Lebanon costs around 100 dollars and on average a dialysis patients requires 3 sessions per week. Currently, there are 218 Syrian refugees in need of dialysis in Lebanon but only 121 patients have funding for their treatment until February 2019. The other 97 risk losing access to their dialsyis sessions if no funding is secured soon.
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