DHAKA: More than two crores of people in Bangladesh are affected by kidney disease while five people are facing untimely death every hour after being affected with these diseases, speakers told a discussion at Noakhali Zila School auditorium.

Terming the kidney disease as a harmful one, they said the treatment of this disease is highly expensive and even five percent of people cannot afford it.

Kidney Awareness, Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS), a voluntary organization, dedicated to awareness raising for the prevention of kidney disease and treatment as well, organized the discussion jointly with ‘Jonaki Club’, a social welfare organization in Noakhali to mark the golden jubilee celebration of the club.

Noakhali Government University College principal, Professor Al-Helal Mohammad Moshrraf Hossain attended the seminar as chief guest while KAMPS chairman Professor Dr MA Samad presented keynote paper on the occasion.

Jonaki Club founding president Omor Faruk presided over the seminar titled “Kidney disease is harmful: Way to prevent”.

Stressing upon increasing the treatment facility for the huge number of kidney patients of the country, speakers commented that awareness is the main thing for prevention of kidney disease.

“There are many people who have already been suffering from kidney disease in the country but the existing opportunity of treatment is very insufficient”, speakers opined.

While addressing, the chief guest put emphasize on changing lifestyle and leading an ideal life to stay away from the risk of catching diseases.

In his keynote, Professor Dr MA Samad explained the reasons of Kidney disease and menace of sudden kidney failure.

Dr Samad mentioned diabetes, high blood pressure, nephritis, obstruction in urinal tract, enlargement of prostate of elderly people, narrowing urinal track, unauthorized use of medicine, smoking etc. are the common causes of Kidney disease across the globe.

According to him, in Bangladesh there have more reasons like diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding during delivery, taking herbal or ‘kabiraji’ medicine, snake biting, unauthorized medicine use and adulterated food consumption.

He mentioned among two crores of kidney patients in the country about 35,000 to 40,000 of patients die every year due to kidney failure and 90 percent of them die due to lack of treatment.

Kidney researcher Dr Samad also mentioned seven separate issues in preventing kidney disease like taking immediate step to prevent dehydration caused by diarrhea and vomiting, preventing bleeding during delivery, having no medicine without doctors’ prescription, taking modern treatment in case of snake or other insect biting, taking immediate treatment for urinal infection and drinking required quantity of fresh water.

There are around 80 lakhs of diabetes patients and more than 1 crore high blood pressure (BP) patients and almost all of them are under the risk of having kidney failure, he added.

A team of expert physicians including Assistant Professor of Shahabuddin Medical College, Dr Syed Tanveer Ahmed, Dr Atahar Hossain and Dr Mihir Lal Devnath took part in the day-long medical camp.

Nearly 2,500 of patients visited the free and daylong medical camp to receive treatment in various disciplines including kidney, heart, eye, medicine etc.

BDST: 1739 HRS, JAN 03, 2015