Where altogether the government and private sector organizations cannot treat 5 percent of Kidney patients there its possible to prevent at least 60 percent kidney diseases only through raising awareness among people in the SAARC countries including Bangladesh, speakers said in a seminar on Thursday.
They observed that it needs not spending money rather only to bring some changes in day to day life and practicing them very strictly.
Voluntary organization Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS) and Lions Club of Dhaka Pratiti jointly organized the seminar and free medical camp at the Ananta Garments at Elephant road in the city.
District Governor of Lions, Lion Swadesh Ranjan Saha attended the seminar as chief guest while Chief Consultant, Kidney Department, Lab Aid Specialised Hospital, Dhaka and Chairman of KAMPS, Prof. Dr. MA Samad keynote paper in the seminar.
Considering the harmfulness of the kidney diseases, speakers urged the government to take special program to raise awareness among people to prevent the disease across the country.
Addressing as chief guest, Lion Swadesh Ranjan Saha said there have no alternative to government’s patronization in easing the kidney treatment for poor and general people as the treatment of this disease is highly expensive one.
Calling upon the government to come forward in this regard, he said side by side the government; the affluent class of people of the society will also have to think of the poor class of patients of the country.
He said Lions is the largest service oriented organization in the world and we the Lions provide services to the people as per their requirements spending our own resources.
President of Lions Club Dhaka Pratiti, Lion Shawkat Tasmin Chowdhury presided over the seminar and free medical camp while among others, former GM of Bangladesh Bank, Freedom Fighter Abdul Malek, Ist Vice President of Pratiti Club, Lion Sufia Begum, Regional Chairperson, District, Lion Harun Rashid, Cabainet Secretary, District, Lion Engr. Wahab also spoke on the occasion.
In the keynote paper Prof. Dr. MA samad said worldwide everyone can feel that not through treatment but the high risk of kidney disease can be prevented only through raising awareness among people.
