‘10 pc world population suffering from kidney diseases’

[LahoreEstate]

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By Our Correspondent

LAHORE

HIGH blood pressure and sugar patients are the soft target to become victim of kidney diseases as well as cardio-vascular diseases. Currently, almost 10 per cent world population was suffering from one or the other kidney diseases.

Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons President Prof Dr Sajjad Hussain said kidneys were the vital organs of a human body as their failure resulted in the failure of all other human body parts. Owing to chronic disease of kidneys, he said, around 12 million people became a victim of heart diseases every year. He said the addition of any disease to renal failure enhanced death risk by 10 times.

To a query from journalists, Prof Sajjad Hussain said the renal failure became a serious life-threat, if the causes leading to this disease were not controlled well in time. He said the situation of renal failure and their cure was very serious in developing countries. He said that people of any age could become victim of kidney failure disease.

He said unavailability of safe drinking water, adulterated food, spurious medicines, sex medicines, anti-biotics, quacks and self-claimed hakeems were the major factors in increasing the incidence of sugar, blood-pressure and kidney diseases in Pakistan.

He said there was an acute shortage of qualified urologists and nephrologists in the country. He said that there were no kidney diseases treatment facilities at district and tehsil headquarters hospitals as well as rural health centres and basic health units.

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