“I am often called the mother of renal care in Zambia,” she reflects with a spark of humility. “But I only did what the situation demanded. I saw patients clinging to hope, and I thought:
why not us? Why not here?”
Renal care in Zambia did not begin with machines.
It began with vision.
In this powerful conversation, 5 decades later Dr. Dorothy Kasonde reflects on pioneering kidney care in the 1980s — long before renal services were fully established in our country a visionary whose nearly five-decade odyssey has reshaped kidney care in Zambia.
Today, as renal units expand and specialist services strengthen under coordinated national efforts, her early courage stands as the foundation of progress.
This is the story of how one woman’s determination helped shape Zambia’s renal future.
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By #RSZ Communications.
