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    Chronic kidney disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the Philippines. If left untreated, people with this disease require hemodialysis or a renal transplant. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation for hemodialysis patients, who are immunocompromised and vulnerable to COVID-19 - a recent study found a 25% death rate among hemodialysis patients admitted with COVID-19. Financial obstacles from additional medical costs as well as lack of clinics able to accommodate COVID-infected dialysis patients have led to missed dialysis sessions and deaths. While some government efforts aim to ensure patient health and safety, their mental health has been largely neglected in terms of research and policies during the pandemic when they are

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    Chronic kidney disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the Philippines. If left untreated, people with this disease require hemodialysis or a renal transplant. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation for hemodialysis patients, who are immunocompromised and vulnerable to COVID-19 - a recent study found a 25% death rate among hemodialysis patients admitted with COVID-19. Financial obstacles from additional medical costs as well as lack of clinics able to accommodate COVID-infected dialysis patients have led to missed dialysis sessions and deaths. While some government efforts aim to ensure patient health and safety, their mental health has been largely neglected in terms of research and policies during the pandemic when they are

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    Chronic Kidney Disease Is The Seventh Leading Cause of Death in The Philippines

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    Chronic kidney disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the Philippines. If left untreated, people with this disease require hemodialysis or a renal transplant. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation for hemodialysis patients, who are immunocompromised and vulnerable to COVID-19 - a recent study found a 25% death rate among hemodialysis patients admitted with COVID-19. Financial obstacles from additional medical costs as well as lack of clinics able to accommodate COVID-infected dialysis patients have led to missed dialysis sessions and deaths. While some government efforts aim to ensure patient health and safety, their mental health has been largely neglected in terms of research and policies during the pandemic when they are

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    Chronic kidney disease is the seventh leading cause of death in the Philippines, 1 with the most

    number of deaths due to renal failure in Southeast Asia. 2 If left untreated, people with this
    disease require hemodialysis (i.e. a procedure to clean a person's blood through a machine) or a
    renal transplant.1 The current COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the already life-
    threatening and expensive situation of hemodialysis patients as they are immunocompromised
    and therefore highly vulnerable. For instance, a recent study conducted during the early phase of
    the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines (between 1 April to 31 July 2020 at a tertiary hospital
    in Manila) revealed that 25% death rate among hemodialysis patients admitted with COVID-
    19.3 Hemodialysis patients manifesting COVID-19 symptoms needed to pay for the reverse
    transcription-polymerase chain reaction tests, nurses’ personal protective equipment (PPE), and
    hazard pay4 on top of their already costly hemodialysis session fees. Such a financial obstacle
    and the lack of dialysis clinics that can accommodate COVID-infected dialysis patients have led
    to missed dialysis sessions, eventually leading to death due to complications (e.g. pulmonary
    complications).4

    While some governmental efforts are in place to ensure the health and safety of the hemodialysis
    patients during the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. increasing coverage of annual benefit package
    from 90 sessions to 144 hemodialysis sessions covered and increasing capacity of hemodialysis
    clinics),4,5 their mental health has been largely neglected in terms of research and policies
    especially in the time of pandemic where they are most at risk. This is not surprising as mental
    health is often not perceived as a priority or urgent concern. The detrimental impact of their
    declining health condition on their mental health 6 is aggravated by the financial need to support
    their hemodialysis sessions. For a developing country like the Philippines, financial problems
    were found to be a strong antecedent of higher depression, anxiety, stress, and lower levels of
    wellbeing during the COVID-19 crisis.7,8

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