Thrust on creating awareness to prevent kidney diseases

Speakers at a discussion programme in the city stressed Sunday the need for creating awareness to prevent deadly and costly kidney diseases.
They said about 40,000 patients out of 20 million (two crore) kidney patients in the country die every year due to kidney failure and 90 per cent of them die due to lack of treatment.
Five persons are facing untimely death every hour being affected with such diseases, the speakers said at the discussion meeting held at the Shilpakala Academy in Chandpur.
Terming the kidney diseases harmful ones they said the treatment of the diseases is highly expensive and even five per cent people cannot afford it and the ratio of death and their suffering could be brought down through raising awareness.
Kidney Awareness, Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS), a voluntary organisation dedicated to awareness raising for preventing kidney diseases and treatment,  organised the discussion meeting styled "Kidney disease is harmful: Way to prevent" on the occasion of opening the KAMPS Kidney Dialysis Centre, Chandpur.
Former foreign minister and the current Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr Dipu Moni attended the meeting as the chief guest with President of KAMPS Prof Dr MA Samad in the chair.
Police Super of Chandpur Md Amir Jafar, Civil Surgeon Dr Rathindra Nath Majumder and President of Chandpur Press Club Golam Kibria Jibon attended the ceremony as special guests.     
Stressing the need for increasing treatment facility for the large number of kidney patients in the country, Dipu Moni said awareness is the main thing for prevention of kidney diseases.
Dr Rathindra Nath Majumder said the rate of kidney diseases has been increasing due to prevalence of non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and hypertension etc.
Dr MA Samad presented keynote paper in the meeting styled "Kidney disease is harmful: Way to prevent".
In his paper Prof Samad mentioned the reasons of kidney diseases, menace of sudden kidney failure and its reasons elaborately.
There about 8.0 million diabetes patients and more than 10 million high blood pressure (BP) patients and almost all of them are under risk of having kidney failure, he added.
Dr Samad said KAMPS has been relentlessly working for preventing the disease through raising awareness for the last 9 years and it is the first-ever organisation that has organised representative teams in 64 districts formed with university students for running awareness programmes and also providing dialysis services to the kidney patients.