Addressing the programme, AK Azad Khan, National Professor and President of Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, stressed the need for effective campaigns to spread awareness on kidney disease prevention, diabetes and hypertension management.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's personal physician Professor ABM Abdullah stressed on prevention of kidney disease rather than treatment.
He told that uncontrolled blood pressure and diabetes are the main causes of kidney related complications.
Citing research data from two years ago, Professor Robed Amin, line director of the government's Non-Communicable Disease Control Programme, said a total of 38 million people across the country are suffering from kidney diseases, while about 40,000 to 50,000 of them are suffering from kidney disease. Are suffering from diseases. kidney failure.