Maintaining healthy lifestyle stressed to prevent kidney ailments

Speakers at a discussion today urged all to maintain healthy lifestyle to avoid kidney-related diseases.

About 3.80 crore people in Bangladesh are affected by some kind of kidney disease. However, if everyone is aware of the prevalence, severity, consequences and causes of kidney disease and maintains a healthy lifestyle, then it is possible to prevent the fatal kidney failure in 60-70 percent of cases, they said.

They came up with the observations at a roundtable titled ‘Obstacles and Transitions in Kidney Health Protection: Bangladesh Context’ organized by the voluntary organization named Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS) at Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia Hall of Jatiya Press Club (JPC) here today.

KAMPS President and Professor of Anwar Khan Modern Medical College Hospital Dr M A Samad presented the keynote paper at the roundtable.

Government-level policymakers, doctors, journalists and educationists, including President of Bangladesh Renal Association Professor Dr Nazrul Islam, President of the Pediatric Nephrology Society of Bangladesh Professor Dr Afroza Begum, founder President of Kidney Foundation of Bangladesh Prof Dr Harun-Ur-Rashid and Executive Director of KAMPS Rezwan Salehin attended the discussion. (BSS)