The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh

A Bladder Scanner has been supplied to The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.Kidney Kid Scotland’s are supplying portable bladder scanners all over the country. One of the Charity’s main aims is to greatly reduce the amount of children having to go through the trauma of being catheterised. The scan performed is a very simple pain free process which can be made into a game for the children. These bladder scanners assess how well each child is able to empty his/her bladder both before and after bladder training sessions, thus hopefully preventing these children from possibly suffering from further infections. Prevention being better than cure.

Kidney Kids Scotland has for the last three years funded a Dietician for the Edinburgh and Lothian area to give dedicated time to children with renal/urology problems. This dietician has been working with children suffering from renal failure and urology problems, encouraging adequate intake of potassium, sodium, phosphorus and fluid as needed. Every child is different and so it is the aim of our Charity that these children should be given individual attention, tailored to their particular needs.

This post has proved to be invaluable for the families involved and Kidney Kids Scotland will be funding it for a Fourth Year.

Kidney Kids Donations to Edinburgh & Lothian

April 2002    Setting up protocols for Dieticians    £13,700

October 2004    Dietician—Year 1    £7000

March 2006    Bladder Scanner    £7000

March 2006    Dietician—Year 2    £7563

October 2006    Extra hours for dietician     £2173

March 2008    Dietician—Year 3    £13,776

March 2008    Dietician—Year 4    £17,186

April 2008    Teleconferencing Equipment    £9,500

February 2009    Bladder Scanner and Portaflow Equipment  £11,450