Awareness must for curbing alarming increase of cases
Speakers at a seminar stressed the need for taking special programmes to create awareness among people on preventing kidney diseases for the number of new cases was increasing alarmingly.
“Awareness is the key to preventing the disease,” former foreign minister Dipu Moni told the seminar in the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy auditorium in Chandpur.
Voluntary organisation Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society recently organised the seminar marking the spread of its services throughout the country, says a press release.
More than two crore people are suffering from kidney diseases in the country and five of them die every hour, said speakers.
“If the diseases and causes can be identified at the primary stage then it is possible to cure people in most of the cases,” said Dr MA Samad while giving the keynote speech at the seminar.
Every year more than 40,000 people in the country die due to kidney damage but not even 10 percent have the capacity to bear the treatment costs, he said.
He said lack of awareness, food habits and lifestyles alongside formalin, artificial colours, carbide and harmful pesticides were the main causes of kidney diseases and some other severe diseases.
He said people suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity and those who smoke, do not do physical work and take medicine without being prescribed by doctors were more prone to being affected by kidney diseases.
Dr Samad said 16 to 18 percent of the country's people had no idea that the diseases were silently damaging their kidneys, which could eventually lead to deaths.
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