Take due care of you Kidney to live happy and long

Doctors
spread awareness on World Kidney Day

Every year
World Kidney is celebrated on second Thursday of March. It is the global
campaign to raise awareness of the importance of kidneys to our health and to
reduce the impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems
worldwide.

National
Dialysis Programme under National Health mission is an initiative of Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It was rolled out in 2016
with involvement of public private partnership (PPP Mode) at District
Hospitals. The objective of this program is to provide important life saving
procedure close to the community and also for reducing impoverishment on
account of out of pocket expenditure for patients.

Talking with
Ajay Bhandarkar a Urologist in Sujoy Hospital, practicing since last 25 years
regarding world kidney day says, People have started becoming conscious about
their health comparatively in last one decade. When it comes to kidney related
issues people sometimes get anxiety about the same. He further says, that
kidney related issues arise because of uncontrolled diabetes and blood
pressure. There are also circumstances when there are internal factors which
are affecting kidney silently and one does not realize it for long and so it
sometimes even becomes difficult to diagnose the same from beginning itself.
There is medical terminology use for the same which is auto immune, that is
directly affect the kidney tissues, internal blood vessels.

Dr.
Bhandarkar on symptoms of the kidney related issues says that basic symptoms
include feeling weakness, hemoglobin issues that is one feels restless, one
does not feel hungry, one feels uneasy, with these one can realize that their
kidney function is compromised. He further says a persons who has uncontrolled
diabetes or blood pressure that is if their diabetes remains above 200 and
blood pressure above 120 on regular basis, they should have regular checkups
otherwise these kind of situations affect kidney a lot. Also high dose given
during malaria or viral treatment or cancer treatment can cause kidney related
issues.  There are cases when one has regular
habit of intake of pain killers for long years that is for around 15 to 20
years, may also cause kidney related issues.

On the
occasion of World Kidney Day, Dr. Ajay Bhandarkar advices everyone  that if one is having uncontrolled diabetes
or blood pressure should have regular checkups and also when one crosses age of
40 and 50, they should have regular body checkups, and be precautious enough.