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Appeal to save travel time from Peterborough

The Peterborough Evening Telegraph has launched an appeal to help raise the £174,000 needed for vital dialysis equipment at one its hospitals.

The renal unit at Peterborough District Hospital has 40 people with kidney problems on dialysis three times a week.

But it urgently needs the funds to update equipment and provide a better service to patients.

The renal unit saves people in from the city travelling to Leicester.

But dialysis still takes over patients’ lives. Some people have to be linked up to the machines for three-and-a-half hours at a time.

One of the hospital’ s patients, David King, talked to the Peterborough Evening Telegraph about how vital the equipment is.

He said: “Dialysis is a life-saving treatment. I know because without I wouldn’t be alive today.

“I know what I would be like without it and it is easy to accept living life on a machine when you know the alternative.”

Half of the money raised will be given to the renal unit at Peterborough District Hospital.

The other half will be donated to the National Kidney Research Fund, based in Priestgate, Peterborough. It will then be used to fund research into kidney problems and other patient care issues.

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