Authors: Gela Mtivlishvili, Lasha Orjonikidze, Iago Gogilashvili - All three characters of this report live in Upper Svaneti. All of them needed dialysis to live. Two of them left Svaneti, the third left and died aged 55. The National Dialysis Program in Georgia started in 1996, but the state could not equip the mountainous region with medical tools and specialists.