Business Report :
KAMPS holds roundtable marking the ‘World Kidney Day-2025’ on Tuesday where speakers at a roundtable discussion stressed forging comprehensive effort to prevent the alarming kidney disease through raising awareness among people, in a desperate bid to avert the fatal and harmful impact of the disease in the families, society and nation.
It is mentioned that more than 85 crore people globally affected by kidney disease. Every year about 1 crore and 30 lakh of people get affected by Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) of which 85 percent is in developing countries like Bangladesh. In Bangladesh about two crore people are suffering from various kidney-related diseases and only 10 percent of them can afford the costly treatment. Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevent Society (KAMPS), a voluntary and not for profit organisation organised the roundtable discussion at the national press club in the capital on Tuesday.
KAMPS Chairman, Prof Dr. MA Samad presided over the discussion also presented keynote paper on the occasion. He stressed the need to formulate national program to raise awareness across the country aiming to prevent the kidney diseases. He highlighted needs to undertake insurance scheme named “Kidney Protection Insurance’ for ensuring treatment to all who are suffering from fatal kidney diseases.
“Diabetes, High Blood Pressure are mainly blamed to act as main reason for kidney disease and all these are considered as silent killers but these diseases could be prevented through raising awareness among people very effectively”, he added.
Prof. Dr. Syed Jakir Hossain, Line Director of Non-Communicable Disease Control (NCDC), DGHS, while addressing said that there have acute shortage of Kidney specialists in the country so scope of treatment for kidney diseases, dialysis etc. is too short and highly expensive. The government has undertaken move to arrange dialysis facility at district level across the country.
KAMPS arranged the roundtable as part of its series of program marking the ‘World Kidney Day 2025’ to be observed on March 13 (Thursday).
“Currently, kidney disease is known to be pandemic in the world. It is a silent killer disease. Kidney disorder treatment is extremely expensive, therefore, awareness should be given priority to prevent kidney diseases and to ensure life with healthy kidney,” speakers said.
In his keynote speech, Prof Dr MA Samad stressed that firstly it needs for formulating policy to widespread coverage of massive awareness raising program across the country mainly targeting to prevent the kidney disease and then ensuring equal rights for better treatment and ensuring access to the treatment facilities for all the kidney failure patients irrespective of rich and poor.
Prof. Dr. Harun or Rashid, Chief Selector of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Ghazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu, Prof. Dr. Nazrul Islam, President, Bangladesh Renal Association, Executive, Director of the KAMPS, Rezwan Salehin also spoke on the occasion among others.
Prof Dr. Mohammad Rafiqul Alam, Chair, ISN South Asia Regional Board, Shah Sanaul Haque, Writer and former Additional Secretary, Dr. Halimur Rashid, Line Director CDC, DGHS, Prof Dr. Afroza Begum, President Paediatric Nephrology Society of Bangladesh, Ms Rokeya Islam, Poet and Chairman, Proshika.
