The manager of Renal Services, Christina Poloai, told the Samoa Observer that when dialysis started in Samoa in 2005 there were five patients, but now there are 103 patients.
The general manager of the National Kidney Foundation, Mulipola Iose Hazelman, said the last survey showed 23 per cent of Samoa's population as either diabetic or suffering hypertension.
He said 80 percent of patients on dialysis started from unmanaged diabetes or unmanaged high blood pressure.
