Nephrology is a medical subspecialty that takes care of patients with medical kidney diseases. In our Kidney Centre, we provide diagnosis, treatment and support for patients with kidneys problem ranging from simple urinary tract infection to complicated care of kidney transplantation. We provide evaluation for patient who presents with haematuria (blood in the urine) and proteinuria (protein in the urine). We provide acute and chronic management of patients with all forms of glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), pyelonephritis (kidney infection), and hereditary kidney diseases such as polycystic kidney disease. We also provide care for patients with diabetic and hypertensive kidney diseases, which are the number one and two causes of kidney failure in the world respectively. Kidney biopsy is offered to patients for diagnosis of the underlying kidney diseases.

For the unfortunate patients who have reached end-stage kidney failure, we offer the services of kidney replacement therapy in the form of haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Our Kidney Centre is located right next to the Haemodialysis Unit. We have a total of eleven haemodialysis machines and an automatic dialyzer-reprocessing unit. We provide physical isolation for patients with hepatitis B. A group of professional staffs with special training provides services to our dialysis patients. In addition to haemodialysis, we also provide service for end-stage kidney patients who choose to have peritoneal dialysis. Both continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) are supported. For suitable end-stage kidney failure patients who wish to have kidney transplant, we provide donor and recipient kidney transplant evaluation.

We work closely with the surgical subspecialty of Urology. Patients with kidney stone are frequently managed together by the combined effort of the nephrologist and urologist. Our urological colleagues provide the acute management of kidney stone disease and the nephrologist provides the necessary medical workup to prevent or reduce future kidney stone formation. In addition, dialysis access placement for haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are provided by our urological colleagues.