Tuesday, 22 December 2015 15:25
Media Alert
10.30am
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Big Red Kidney Bus Breaks Down Barrier to Holiday
for Patients
Royal Botanic Gardens (Visitor Centre)
Birdwood Avenue, South
Yarra
Richard Yann, apart from managing a busy professional life and just becoming a new father, also has to find 3 days a week to be on life saving dialysis - a treatment required for kidney disease by some 11,500 Australians.
For
most kidney patients and their families dialysis makes a holiday out of reach.
Richard and Lachlan
Today however, Richard with his wife Lisa and new baby son Lachlan will be taking a break at the Royal Botanic Gardens where he will be dialysing in the Big Red Kidney Bus, and creating an historic moment for the Royal Botanic Gardens, established in 1846 by Lieutenant Governor Charles Latrobe.
David Hussey - Richard's friend, Kidney Health Australia Ambassador and international cricketer, will be visiting to support Richard and to see how the Big Red Kidney Bus operates.
The joint project by Monash Health, Kidney Health Australia and Latrobe Bus Lines, is a first of its kind and allows the Big Red Kidney Bus to act as a travelling dialysis service that visits various holiday destinations around the State.
Patients can look-up where the bus is going, book a time and receive dialysis whilst on holiday in that area.
The service enables people on haemodialysis, their families and friends to have a holiday away from their home, which would otherwise be so difficult.
Media
Enquiries:
Ron Smith, Media Communications, Kidney Health Australia - Mobile:
0417 329 201 to arrange an interview with Richard Yann
Available
for Interview:
Richard Yann, husband, father and dialysis patient
David Hussey, friend, Kidney Health Australia Ambassador and international
cricketer
Anne Wilson, CEO, Kidney Health Australia
Chris Cole,
Acting Director/CEO representing Tim Entwisle CEO Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
For more information on the Big Red Kidney Bus, visit www.kidney.org.au