The 63-year-old female niece moved for 5 years for the sick father-in-law, carrying 300 kilograms each time.

On August 13th, Chengdu Qinghua Road Electric Power Design Institute dormitory, the staff sent the drugs needed by the patient Peng Uncle to the home.

From 2019, when his father-in-law Peng Fazhen was at home, Jiang Weixin, who lives in Qinghua Road, Chengdu, bought an electric tricycle. Every month, he needs to load 20 boxes of peritoneal dialysis solution from the hospital twice to transport it to the father for dialysis. In the peritoneal dialysis patients of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, the average monthly consumption of dialysate in each patient is about 500 kg. The difficulty of drug delivery has become a common problem faced by long-term dialysis patients. At present, the hospital has decided to take medicine for Peng Fazhen. Difficult patients are given free medicine.

Dialysis for 5 years, 600 kg per month

Jiang Weixin has moved to the home of Peng Fazhen, the father of Qinghua Road, for more than five years. Five years ago, his father-in-law Peng Fazhen started kidney dialysis because of diabetes and gout, and he ran dialysis three times a day. Because Peng Fazhen was old, he was 79 years old, had blood clots in his blood vessels, and hemodialysis could not proceed. In 2019, he switched to peritoneal dialysis to perform dialysis at home.

Peritoneal dialysis, the operation is relatively simple, Peng Fazhen can not run the hospital every day, but the transfer of dialysate has become a huge burden for this family.

Peng Fazhen needs dialysis three times a day, at 6 am, 1 pm and 7 pm, each time the consumption of dialysate is less than 5 kg. Jiang Weixin’s home from the Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital Caotang ward has nearly 5 miles. The dialysate has a weight of more than 30 kilograms and can only be used for two days. Jiang Weixin was going to take 15 days at a time, more than 300 pounds. The 63-year-old Jiang Weixin is only 115 pounds. Every time he moves these medicines, he will be too tired to breathe.

The hospital will send the dialysate to the door.

"Children are at work, it is impossible to always take time off to help." Jiang Weixin said that he is getting older and his body is not strong before, and he is getting more and more drugs every month.

According to the relevant person in charge of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, there are more than 200 provincial hospitals for peritoneal dialysis such as Peng Fazhen. Because peritoneal dialysis patients need to dialysis 3-5 times at home every day, 200-300 kg of liquid per month is needed. Peritoneal dialysis drugs, which is a huge problem for patients with weak health and inconvenient transportation.

Since yesterday, in order to reduce the burden on patients, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital has started to provide free drug delivery services for peritoneal dialysis patients and provide family technical guidance. Because the hospital has limited human resources, it can only be delivered to patients within the third ring of Chengdu City.

At present, the number of patients who have signed a contracted service agreement for peritoneal dialysate distribution with provincial hospitals has reached 74. According to the average monthly use of 250 kilograms, more than 13,000 medicines will be delivered to these patients throughout the year.