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Awareness progs launched to prevent kidney diseases

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 14 February 2016

As part of its massive health awareness campaign on kidney diseases, Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation have jointly launched different programmes in some renowned and underprivileged schools in Dhaka city aiming to protect the students from the diseases.
Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation organized an awareness programme at the Phul Kuri, a school for underprivileged students, in the city’s Hatirjheel area focusing different aspects on kidney diseases.
Several hundreds of students of poor families, guardians, teachers of the school were present at the programme.
Chairman of Save Life Foundation and President of Gift Live Foundation Dr Sohely Ahmed Sweety told BSS that, “We are launching various health awareness programmes at city’s renowned schools and some schools for the children of poor families.”
As part of the campaign, Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation, organized a programme at Lake Circus Girls High School at Kalabagan on January 20.
“Our two foundations — Save Life Foundation and Gift Live Foundation — have taken the initiatives ahead of World Kidney Disease-2016 to be held on March 10,” she added.
This year the theme of the World Kidney Day has been selected as “Kidney Disease & Children: Act early to prevent it.”
Kidney disease has emerged as a serious public health problem as nearly 50 lakh children in the country are now somehow suffering from kidney ailment, Dr Sweety said.
Alarming rise of kidney diseases among the children is a global phenomenon and early detection can save millions of children’s lives, she added.
“If we make students and their parents aware on kidney diseases, we can save millions of life of our children, said adding, “We are organizing different programmes at different schools for healthy life of children.”
Health experts said birth defects and hereditary diseases are the leading causes of kidney failure among children and common symptoms for children are swelling of the hands and feet and puffiness around the eyes.
Other major symptoms include lack of or decrease in appetite, decreased or increased frequency of urination, long- lasting changes in the color of the urine such as unusually dark or red, flu-like symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, stunted or poor growth as compared to similar age group peers.