Health
THE Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, Surulere, Lagos; celebrates the year 2024 World Kidney Day set out every second Thursday of the Month of March every year.
A Consultant Nephrologist, Dr. Babawale Bello said today being 14th March, 2024; is set aside globally to celebrate World Kidney Day in order to raise awareness about Kidney, it’s Diseases and what happens when there is Kidney disease.
He said, “this year is a third in the series of a theme called “Kidney Health For All”. We are focusing on equitable access to drugs for all people who have Kidney Disease. The World Kidney Day was organized by group known as International Society of Kidney Federation who come together to celebrate World Kidney Day. The first episode was in 2006, and its held annually since that time. So we are now in the eighteen year of celebrating the World Kidney Day”.
All over the World, all those involve in Kidney care, will be participating in the celebration of World Kidney Day. The events to mark the celebration are; Lectures, Public screening, Awareness Campaign, and Lagos University Teaching Hospital will be participating in such celebration.
The Hospital Community is aware of this celebration with the Awareness Walk that took place early in the morning, and a team from the Hospital was at Eko Boys High School who carried out screening on people amongst Children to detect any abnormality for further evaluation. Such events are going round all over the country.
The Nigerian Association of Nephrology, the umbrella body for all persons involved in the care for Patients with Kidney disease including; Nephrologist, Nurses, Dialysis Engineers organizing a National event that includes Public Health awareness screening and that is going on all across the country.
Dr. Bello said the purpose of World Kidney Day is to raise awareness about burden of kidney disease globally. This has become a really big source of concern all across the world. It is estimated that about one in every ten people will have some evidence of kidney disease if we check. Having said that, it is particularly more common in certain population of people of Sub Sahara African descent, who tend to be a lot more affected by Kidney disease than the rest of the World.
In the same vein, Kidney disease tends to cause no symptoms early in the course such that if you don’t go for screening, then, you may not know until the disease is very advanced. And that’s our experience in this part of the World where patient come very late in the course of the illness where we can’t do much other than to prepare them for transplantation at dialysis.
The event at World Kidney Day allows us to screen and communicate to our people to go for Screening Health Checks. The message is simply to be aware that the Kidneys are very important organs and have roles to play in excretion of wastes, control of blood sugar, making of blood, turnover of bone. That the disease of kidney are quite common and up to about one in every ten adult have some evidence of kidney disease if they check. That kidney disease early in its course, where we can intervene, to really make a difference in the course of the disease doesn’t cause symptoms, so it is possible to miss it entirely. To avoid a situation where you have Kidney disease and you don’t know, go for screening and Health checks every year.
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-March 14, 2024 @ 19:15 GMT|
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