The Ida Bass Kidney Foundation supports the only dialysis center in The Gambia, providing lifesaving dialysis equipment, supplies, staff training, and disease awareness. The charity was founded in memory of Ida Bass after her death from kidney failure in 2012. It aims to reduce mortality and improve quality of life for kidney patients in The Gambia by ensuring all have access to adequate dialysis treatment. Donations have allowed improvements like additional dialysis machines and a reverse osmosis unit, helping achieve better outcomes and hope for patients like 17-year-old Kumuna Corra. Plans are underway for a second renal unit in a remote area over 3 hours from the capital by car.

1. 1156436 – Ida Bass Kidney Foundation
This is Ida Bass the
mother of Sailey
Fladsrud, founder of
the charity. Diagnosed
with End Stage Renal
Failure in August
2012. Unfortunately
passed away after 4
months on dialysis.

2. About us
The charity supports the only Haemodialysis Centre in the
Gambia, at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in
Banjul, with dialysis and medical equipment and consumables
desperately needed in order to provide free lifesaving dialysis
treatment to the increasing number of patients.
The charity also provides staff training and raise awareness
about kidney disease.
The work carried by the charity is primarily dependent of public
donations and corporate donations from generous companies
and orgnisations.

3. Our mission / vision
Our mission is to reduce patient mortality rate and improve
quality of lives for kidney disease sufferers currently receiving
dialysis treatment at the Edward Francis Small Teaching
Hospital’s Haemodialysis Unit in Banjul, The Gambia.
Our vision is to ensure that no kidney disease sufferers should
die due to lack of adequate dialysis treatment in the Gambia,
West Africa.

4. Changing lives
“The first time you start dialysis you
feel like it’s the end of your life. But
as the treatment available becomes
better, I am more hopeful about my
future.”
Kumuna Corra, 17 years old

5. Before – The Old Haemodialysis Centre
• 4 beds! With FCFSB.
• Dailysis machines with anti pest (rat)
devices
• Blood and other fluids up the walls
of the old ward.
• Water plant – unknown origins
• Life expectancy short

6. How did I get involved
• Sailey attended EDTA – European Dialysis & Transplantation
Association at the Excel in London 2015
• Sailey Fadsrud was introduced to DWA / Kalpesh Shah by
Nipro, who donated a Reverse Osmosis Unit.
• Then the charity needed someone to commission the RO unit
and help with anything else in the unit.
• I Volunteered to commission the RO plant in the Gambia in
September 2015
• Then I returned in February 2016 to carry out more work

7. What has been donated so far:
•Fresenius 4008 dialysis machines
•DWA Reverse Osmosis unit’s
•Consumables
•Other medical equipment.
•Dialysis Chairs
•The personal time in Gambia by Sailey Fladsrud, Jason Dales
and Galvin Shuttleworth.

8. What we’ve achieved so far…

9. The Gambia, West Africa
• One of the smallest countries in Africa
• Population – 1.8 million people
• Running along the river – limited crossings

10. Possible phase for 2017
• A second Renal Unit is planned for Farrafenni
• We visited it is 3 .5 hour journey in 44C with no
air con!

11. Thank you!
Please if you can or would like to help in
anyway please get in touch
www.ibkf.org.uk