About SAS Dial Initiative
SAS Dial Initiative carries forward the high risk renal clinic and haemodialysis programme launched at SAS Lweza Clinic, with its own accounts.
Our story
SAS Lweza Clinic, a fully licensed medical facility operating since 2012, opened a high risk renal clinic and haemodialysis programme to serve patients across Uganda. A course of dialysis costs more than most Ugandan families can sustain.
The clinic hosted the programme, funded it out of its own operations, and kept it open.
SAS Dial Initiative takes on the renal clinic, the screening work and the dialysis subsidy as an independent organisation.
Our vision
A Uganda in which no one loses their life to kidney failure because treatment was out of financial reach.
Our mission
To fund, sustain and grow a renal programme that finds kidney disease early and keeps patients on the treatment that holds it.
Our values
- Subsidised patients are treated in the same room, on the same machines, by the same clinicians.
- Water treatment, machine maintenance, infection control and staffing levels are set by clinical need.
- Restricted funds are spent on the purpose they were given for.
- Where a licensed facility or a community organisation is already doing the work, the initiative funds it rather than building a parallel service.
Clinical partner and reporting
The initiative is the funding and governance body behind a programme delivered by clinicians in a licensed facility.
- Clinical partnership. Treatment is delivered at SAS Lweza Clinic in Seguku by its renal team. Clinical decisions are made by the clinicians.
- Independent funding body. The initiative sets policy, approves the budget, reviews clinical quality reports and holds the relationship with the clinic at arm's length.
- Donor reporting. Giving is tied to defined units of treatment, and reporting states how many were funded, for how many patients, at what cost.
Accountability
The clinic is a business in its own right. The initiative is a charitable body and holds its own accounts, separate from the clinic. Money given for the dialysis programme is applied to treatment. The initiative pays the clinic on agreed terms, against records of sessions delivered. The management systems the initiative is implementing are set out on the governance page.