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DEDICATED STAFF: GKRT nurse, Lucas Mnisi, nursing assistant, Angelique Hilpert and Thiecouta Traore at the launch of the Port Alfred centre. Picture: FAITH QINGA
PORTALFRED

Renal dialysis centre launches in Port Alfred

The Graham & Kolff Renal Therapy (GKRT) centre hosted their official opening at their Albany Road complex on Thursday, July 28. GKRT is a renal company that specialises in the treatment of patients with chronic and acute kidney disease.…

  • Faith Qinga
MAN AND MACHINE: Dr Thiecouta Traore, founder of GKRT, with ‘Rose’, one of the newly-installed renal therapy machines in the new Port Alfred branch of the company Picture: ROB KNOWLES
DIALYSIS

Making therapy easier for kidney patients

Born in Dakar, the capital of West Africa’s Senegal, Thiecouta Traore was destined to take up an occupation in the medical field, as both his parents were doctors – his mother an anesthesiologist and father a gynaecologist. “They tried to…

  • Rob Knowles