Chandpur Correspondent :More than two crore of people in Bangladesh are affected by kidney diseases while five people are sustaining untimely death every hour being affected with this disease, speakers told a discussion meeting at the Shilpakala Academy in Chandpur recently.Terming the kidney disease as a harmful one they said the treatment of this disease is highly expensive and even five percent of people cannot afford it.Kidney Awareness, Monitoring and Prevention Society (KAMPS), a voluntary organisation, dedicated in awareness raising for preventing Kidney disease and treatment, organised the discussion meeting styled “Kidney disease is harmful: Way to prevent” on the occasion of opening the ‘KAMPS Kidney Dialysis Center-Chandpur.Former Foreign Minister and currently the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Ministry, Dr. Dipu Moni attended the meeting as Chief Guest, with President of KAMPS, Prof Dr MA Samad in the chair on Sunday.Stressing upon increasing the treatment facility for the huge number of kidney patients of the country, Dipu Moni said, awareness is the main thing for prevention of kidney disease.She said, there have a lot many people who have already caught kidney disease in the country but the existing opportunity of treatment is very insufficient.
