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OUR VISION
To ensure that no kidney patient will perish because of the lack of funds for dialysis and to prevent kidney failure due to diabetes and other complications

OUR MISSION
To look after the well-being of needy people stricken with end-stage kidney disease by nurturing hope and confidence to make their lives more meaningful and to support research that will help prevent kidney related diseases

OUR COMMITMENT

To provide high quality, low cost treatment to needy kidney patients
To offer patient support services to all kidney patients in Singapore
To promote public awareness and education of kidney diseases


To organise educational programmes on renal-related issues for healthcare and medical professionals
To promote live donor transplant


To support research work that would lead to the prevention and cure of kidney-related diseases

  

In the 1980s, most needy kidney patients in Singapore were provided with dialysis treatment under the then government-funded program; the Self-Dependency Dialysis Unit (SDDU).

To keep the cost of the treatment low, patients had to provide a dialysis helper who was usually their spouses. Patients and their helpers had to spend numerous hours in the treatment process, preventing them from seeking full-time employment and thus leaving them trapped in the poverty cycle. 

To address this issue, the Kidney Dialysis Foundation (KDF) was set up with the support of the Ministry of Health to subsidize the treatment fees for these low-income patients. KDF overhauled the SDDU program to provide patients with fully aided treatment so as to enable their family members to seek full-time employment.

In 1996, KDF’s first Haemodialysis (HD) centre, the KDF-Alexandra Centre situated in Alexandra hospital opened its doors to patients. To accommodate the rising number of needy patients, more centres were built over the years. The KDF-Bishan Centre was opened on 20 November 1997 by Mr Wong Kan Seng, Minister for Home Affairs and Member of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. The Centre is easily accessible to patients living in the northern and central parts of Singapore.|

On 9 October 2004, KDF inaugurated two new dialysis centres – San Wang Wu Ti (SWWT)-KDF Centre and KDF-Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Centre located at Kreta Ayer Road. President Nathan and Mrs Nathan were invited to grace the occasion a KDF’s Guest-of-Honour. Other distinguished guests included Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Minister of Health, and Dr Lily Neo, Member of Parliament for Jalan Besar GRC.

The haemodialysis centre, SWWT-KDF Centre, was so named because of the generous contribution by its disciples and devotees of the Society towards the full cost of building and maintenance of the Centre. The establishment of KDF-PD Centre was made possible with the generous combined donation from the Khoo Foundation and Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd.

In mid 2005, the KDF- Alexandra Centre ceased operations as the lease for the location ended. With its closure, KDF needed a new centre to serve the existing patients. In December 2006, KDF received a generous donation from the Estate of Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat enabling KDF to build a dialysis centre to replace the Alexandra Centre. With this centre, KDF hopes to relieve the workload at the current centres and to better serve its patients. This new haemodialysis centre would be located at Ghim Moh. On 23 July 2007, KDF held the official opening ceremony for KDF – Ghim Moh Centre. The even was graced by Dr Vivian Balakrishnana, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Mr Teo Ho Pin, the Mayor of the North-West District and Ms Elizabeth and Mavis Khoo from the Estate of Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat.
Since its inception, KDF has put into practice procedures and guidelines in order to maximize utilization of public donations for life-longholistic patient care. A fixed-cost subcontracting system allows for minimal administrative and overhead costs.

TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY
A number of policies have been implemented to ensure transparency of commercial transactions. Funds raised and monies collected are utilised largely for patient treatment, and not for costly overheads and miscellaneous expenditure. Accountability extends to our financial statements that are easily available at our website and upon the request of donors.

COST EFFECTIVENESS & PRE-DETERMINDED COSTS
To exercise absolute cost control and minimise administrative and overhead costs while delivering quality care, KDF subcontracts its dialysis services to Dialysis Management Companies (DMCs) through open tenders. KDF has benefited from subcontracting because the DMCs have to work within a given budget to handle all dialysis treatment, nursing and ancillary staff and the maintenance of equipment. Commercial and accounting records are transparent as costs are pre-determined.

GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
KDF adheres to the improved regulations for Institutions of Public Character (IPC) provided by the Health Ministry (MOH) for Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) in Singapore. KDF is in full compliance with the governance Evaluation checklist listed on the charity portal (www.charities.gov.sg) by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

OUTSOURCING & DIALYSIS COST
To ensure cost-effectiveness, our dialysis services are outsourced to the professional service providers through an open tender system. In the financial year 2008/9, 95% of our patients paid less than $600 per month out of their own pockets for their dialysis. Some of them even pay as low as $130 per month.

RESERVES FUND POLICY
The Board of KDF shall maintain some level of reserve to ensure long term financial sustainability. As at 31 March 2009, assuming KDF receives no income from the government, patients and donors , the accumulated surplus as would only enable KDF to sustain the cost base of the financial year 08/09 for three years.  As dialysis treatment for end stage renal disease is a life long process, it is the intention of the management to ensure that the level of reserve is adequate to support the KDF programs for its needy patients during their life-time.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
KDF has policies in place to prevent and address actual and potential conflict of interest that will affect the intregrity, fairness and accountability of the Foundation. These policies are clearly stated in the Foundation's Code of Governance and Conduct and are adopted by the Foundation, Board members and staff. In situations, where a potential conflict of interest should arise, the board will evaluate the situation and the affected party will abstain from voting on the transaction. For the FY08/09, the Chairman, Board members and staff have declared that they do not have any personal interest in business transactions or contracts that KDF have entered into.

FRAUD DETECTION AND REPORTING
KDF maintains a zero tolerance policy towards fraud. This policy not only applies to all the Foundation’s Board, Committee members and staff but also applies to the Foundation’s vendors, suppliers and partners to the extend that the Foundation’s resources or reputation may be involved or affected.

INTERNAL CONTROLS AND AUDITS
Since 2006, the Board has commissioned an independent third party to conduct annual internal audits to ensure that the operations of the Foundations is in compliance with the established guide-lines and regulations set by the Commissioner of Charities; Sector Administrator and the relevant government bodies and adopts best practices recommended for the charity sector.

 

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