Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi, is appealing to the Ministry of Health to extend a helping hand to the struggling Dialysis Unit of the referral center. Currently, the hospital is overwhelmed with patients in dire need of dialysis treatment following the government's announcement of free treatment of some aspects of dialysis treatment under the National Health Insurance Authority. Speaking on Abusua FM in Kumasi, the public relations director of the teaching hospital Kwame Frimpong disclosed, that the hospital is currently managing dialysis cases with only seven (7) dialysis machines. "When the government announced the free dialysis treatment policy under the National Health Authority scheme, we started the free treatment immediately before other hospitals. We bought three dialysis machines at a cost of 1.6 million Ghana Cedis. Management also repaired 2 broken dialysis machines we had in the hospital.