Imelda’s other projects: One performs 300 kidney transplants and dialysis treatments on a mass scale.
But not only the Heart Center. Besides that hospital, the Philippines has three other specialty hospitals, all government operated, all renowned in their respective fields: the Lung Center of the Philippines, the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI), and the Philippine Children’s Medical Center. (NKTI has been performing 300 kidney transplants each year, and its 43 dialysis machines serve the poor daily from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m.)