title: Saving lives together.
abstract: Established 20 years ago with a single dialysis center assisting only 20 patients with 6 hemodialysis machines, Medicare has grown leaps and bounds to assist thousands of poor patients to obtain a highly subsidized rate for quality treatment. Millions of ringgit raised via various fundraising projects and events have been well utilized to serve the growing number of kidney patients in Malaysia who simply cannot bear the exorbitant cost of treatment. Staying true to its mission, Medicare extends its assistance to needy kidney patients and their families, who indirectly have become part of the Medicare family.
authors.forename: Aliyah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karen
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008296:Malaysia; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*