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Every year SKIMS gets 600 patients with chronic kidney disease

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Rising Kashmir News Srinagar, Nov 26: Every year 600 patients suffering from chronic kidney disease are admitted at SKIMS, Soura while India adds more than one lakh such cases, medical experts said here on Wednesday. Addressing a one-day symposium at SKIMS, Soura in Srinagar on ‘Kidney Diseases and Preventive Nephrology’, medical experts said chronic kidney disease is a worldwide public health problem. “India adds more than one lakh new cases of chronic kidney disease every year while at SKIMS, Soura 600 new patients of chronic kidney disease are added up every year,” they said. “The treatment of this disease is either kidney transplantation or maintenance dialysis. The modalities are very costly and though available at SKIMS aren’t answer to the problem in view of its massive magnitude. The answer lies in early detection of and prevention of progression of this disease.” Experts in the field deliberated on these issues and other aspects of kidney diseases, their detection and management. A clear view that emerged was that stress be laid on public awareness regarding proper treatment of diseases like high blood pressure and high blood sugar – diabetes mellitus. “As these two diseases account for greater than half the cases of kidney failure, relatives of patients of these diseases together with relatives of patients of nephritis need to be screened for chronic kidney disease,” said Dr Abdul Hamid Zargar, Director SKIMS in his speech on the occasion of inaugural ceremony. Dr Salim Najjar, HOD Nephrology emphasized the need for making full use of preventive strategies to reduce the number of new cases of chronic kidney disease in the community. According to experts, chronic kidney disease results in death in one year time unless treated by dialysis or transplantation. “Only three to five per cent of these more than 1 lakh patients are able to get either of these treatment modalities. The cost of dialysis comes to Rs 12,000 to Rs 17,000 per month while a transplant costs Rs 50,000 at SKIMS and anything between Rs 3 to Rs 5 lakh in a private hospital. Maintenance cost of a transplant patient varies between 10,000 to Rs 15,000 per month. The number of dialysis machines available in India can suffice only 2 per cent of chronic kidney disease patient population.” In addition to faculty of SKIMS, SKIMS Medical College, Government Medical College, resident staff and doctors from the Health Services attended the symposium. The organizers thanked Director Health Services, Dr Muzaffar Ahmad for sponsoring health services doctors. The faculty that spoke on the occasion include Parvaiz Koul, Dr Abdul Rasid Reshi, Dr Shariq Rashid Masoodi, Dr Ashraf and Dr Imtiaz Wani.

Popularise organ donation culture, says Governor

Express News Service

First Published : 08 Dec 2008 07:49:34 AM IST

Last Updated : 08 Dec 2008 01:59:33 PM IST

BHUBANESWAR: As India is set top the world in diabetes and heart ailment cases due to multiple ‘socio-genetic factors’ and more people would be needing various organs to survive, Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare today called for more cadaver transplant facilities in the Eastern Indian states so that people can get the benefit.Honouring Bijaylaxmi Nayak — who pledged organs of her 17-year-old son — who died in the recent flood in Rasulgarh area of the city, Bhandare also said that there should be more efforts to facilitate ‘awareness, access and achievement’ for the organ donation initiative.He was speaking at the second annual meet of city-based multi organ transplantation and human and educational research (Mother).Director of Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences Prof S C Dash said diabetes and high blood pressure are affecting the Indian society in a on an epidemic scale and there are approximately 60 million diabetics and 24 million of them will develop kidney failure. Likewise, out of 100 million hypertensive 10 million will develop kidney failure. Obesity due to lifestyle changes is also becoming common in urban and semi-urban population, he added.As diabetes and hypertension produce devastating complications like kidney failure, heart attack and brain stroke collectively known as ‘multi-organ failure’, more number of organs, especially of kidneys, will be needed. However, he stressed that as a primary step there should be more emphasis on starting more dialysis centres on regional basis across the State.‘Currently in India 95 per cent kidneys come from living-related donors and only five per cent from cadaver ones. But with the increasing need, we must try to popularise the cadaver donation system as per the Human Organ Transplantation Act, (1994), to fight the vicious circle of ‘organ trade’, he said. He also called for simplification of procedures and more disciplined approach among transplant experts so that majority of the population including the needy can benefit.Managing trustee of ‘Mother’ T.N.Panda said first the State Government must streamline the services at four regional diagnostic centres and start dialysis facility at Capital Hospital soon adding one government medical college should start kidney transplantation on regular basis.Advocate-General B K Mahanty said laws should be simplified for use in the country and it can also help in curbing the illegal ‘organ trade’.Former chief secretary SB Mishra said private city-based multi-speciality hospitals and medical colleges must also come forward with regular transplantation to help the people.