World Kidney Day today

Staff Correspondent: The ‘World Kidney Day’ is being celebrated today (Thursday) in the country as elsewhere in the world aiming to expedite awareness campaign to prevent kidney ailment.

The theme of this year’s World Kidney Day is “Kidney Disease and Obesity: Healthy lifestyle for healthy kidney”.

In separate messages on the eve of the World Kidney Day, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged all to work together to create awareness among the people about prevention and treatment of kidney disease.

They said the number of kidney patients is gradually increasing in the country because of defective birth, genetic disorders, nephritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and taking of pain killing drugs.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, different government and non-government organizations including Kidney Foundation, Bangladesh Renal Association, Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS) and Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation have jointly taken various programmes marking the ‘World Kidney Day’.

The programmes include rally, discussion, seminar and free kidney check up.



Risingbd/ Dhaka/March 9, 2017/Mukul