The name HDI – Holiday Dialysis International – represents our special service we offer to dialysis patients worldwide. People with kidney disease, and especially those regularly receiving dialysis, are generally considered to be relatively immobile. They have little opportunity to travel abroad or go on business trips to other countries. This is where Fresenius Medical Care comes in: we use our global presence to provide a free and professional worldwide booking service for dialysis care, either within our own network or in cooperation with external certified providers. The program restores mobility by giving dialysis patients the life-saving dialysis treatment they need in nearly every corner of the globe.

Fresenius Medical Care also offers patients on cruises the high-quality dialysis treatment they are accustomed to. HDI ensures that the dialysis machines, dialyzers, water preparation systems and other related equipment used on ships meet our high quality standards to ensure that patients “on the go” receive the customary topnotch treatment they get at home.

Due to the large number of patients who want to travel to the Canary Islands, HDI has reinforced its presence there by signing exclusive agreements with three holiday clinics in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. We plan to extend this offer to Tenerife in 2008.

In 2007, the number of patients using HDI’s services exceeded 2,000, over 10% more than in the previous year. Furthermore, HDI organized 14 cruises for dialysis patients in the Mediterranean and Scandinavian region in the course of 2007.