SYLHET, Feb 03: About 10 million people are suffering from kidney related complexities in Bangladesh. Some 70 to 80 per cent of them need dialysis.
Presently there are only one million dialysis machines all over the country which can serve maximum one million patients. The number of kidney patients is on rise and the situation is taking a serious turn day by day. Besides, still the treatment is costly.
Experts from home and abroad at the first annual convention and scientific seminar of Kidney Foundation, Sylhet on Saturday expressed the views. Kidney Foundation Bangladesh and its Sylhet Branch jointly organised the event at a hotel in the city.
Speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session President of the Diabetic Association Bangladesh Professor AK Azad Khan said there should be a mass awareness about the kidney diseases at all level. Alongside the physicians, cross section people of the society should come forward to deal with it, he noted. He also spoke on how to improve Diabetic Care in Bangladesh since it had been in a serious state with increasing number of patients.
Professor of Nephrology Ziauddin Ahmed of Drexel University of USA spoke on necessity of integrated Health Care in Sylhet as well as Bangladesh. He said many NRB physicians are ready to serve the patients in Bnagladesh.
Son of martyred Dr. Shamsuddin Ahmed of Sylhet city, Professor Ziauddin and his family members and some others had already donated funds for establishing the foundation's Sylhet hospital.
In his presidential address, Founder and President of Kidney Foundation of Bangladesh Professor Harun Ur Rashid said as a non-profit organisation the foundation would arrange free treatment for the poor.
Kidney Foundation's Secretray General Professor M Muhibur Rahman also head of the Nephrology at the Sir Salimullah Medical College and Kidney Foundation, Sylhet's secretary Colonel MA Salam Bir Protik also addressed the event.
The Sylhet branch of the foundation started its journey six months back, the event was told, already it had offered services to 3,000 patients. A kidney hospital would soon be constructed on a plot donated by one Zuber Ahmed Chowdhury.
The other sessions were addressed by a number of experts.
Professor Mohammad Saduzzaman Chowdhury, Head of Urology at the New York Medical College, USA spoke on Management of Renal mass & and Cancer while Professor Sarwar Iqbal of Birdem spoke on different aspects of the treatment.
Founder of liver Foundation Profssor Mohammad Ali spoke on Liver disease in Bangladesh and its prevention and management approach.
Professor Khaled Mohsin of Heart Foundation of Bangladesh spoke on advanced cardiac care in Sylhet.
A good number of physicians and social leaders joined the day-long event.
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