Staff Reporter :
Experts and social workers at a roundtable on Saturday said the women in Bangladesh are facing discrimination in kidney disease treatment as their health conditions are overlooked.
Women suffer more from kidney disease but their treatment rate is lower than that of male patients, they said while addressing the roundtable on “Kidney and Women’s Health: Gender-based Discrimination and How to Overcome” in the city.
The roundtable was organised by Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society to mark the World Kidney Day.
This year the World Kidney Day will be observed across the world on Thursday next with the theme “Kidneys and Women’s Health: Include, Value, Empower.”
The experts and social workers said women suffer from some ailments that lead to kidney disease but they have less access to screening, dialysis and kidney transplantation.
They also called upon to create awareness among the people so that women could not suffer from discrimination in kidney disease treatment.
Kidney Foundation Bangladesh President Harun-ur-Rashid said the treatment seeking behaviour of kidney patients in Bangladesh
showed that women face discrimination in treatments.
“The kidney donation rate show that about 70 per cent mothers and 10 per cent fathers donate kidneys to their children while 100 per cent women donate their kidneys to their husbands but husbands very rarely donate their kidneys for their wives,” he said.
He said, “The dialysis rate of female kidney patients is also very low.”
Bangladesh Association of Urology President MA Salam said women have some ailments that later develop into kidney disease. He said most women suffer from urine infections which sometimes lead to kidney disease.
“The doctors often prescribe anti-biotic and pain relievers for pain in the women’s urinary tract which ultimately damage the patients’ kidneys,” he said.
Bangladesh Renal Association President Rafiqul Alam said women suffer more from kidney diseases but their treatment is always overlooked.
Being unable to bear the expenses of their own treatment, women hide the disease for years, he said.
Bangladesh Obstetrics and Gynecology Society President Layla Arjumand Banu said the lifestyle of women often contribute to the disease.
She said women cannot urinate when they are outdoors and even consume less water for this reason, which plays a role in the development of kidney disease later on.
She said gaining of weight, urine infection and pregnancy sometimes bring additional miseries to women and contribute to the occurrence of the disease.
Film Actor Ferdous Ahmed said the society has to change its mindset towards women.
He said women cannot urinate while they are outdoors because of shame, unavailability of public toilets on the roads and shopping malls.
Ferdous said that because of our narrow outlook, women are deprived of basic health practices like passing of urine, breast feeding, maintaining hygiene during menstruation period and other common privacy related issues that are uncommon to men.
KAMPS Chairman MA Samad said there are about two crore people in Bangladesh who were somewhat suffering from kidney disease. He also advised on getting creatinine tests twice a year and avoiding anti-biotic and pain relievers to keep kidney disease at bay.
Experts and social workers at a roundtable on Saturday said the women in Bangladesh are facing discrimination in kidney disease treatment as their health conditions are overlooked.
Women suffer more from kidney disease but their treatment rate is lower than that of male patients, they said while addressing the roundtable on “Kidney and Women’s Health: Gender-based Discrimination and How to Overcome” in the city.
The roundtable was organised by Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Prevention Society to mark the World Kidney Day.
This year the World Kidney Day will be observed across the world on Thursday next with the theme “Kidneys and Women’s Health: Include, Value, Empower.”
The experts and social workers said women suffer from some ailments that lead to kidney disease but they have less access to screening, dialysis and kidney transplantation.
They also called upon to create awareness among the people so that women could not suffer from discrimination in kidney disease treatment.
Kidney Foundation Bangladesh President Harun-ur-Rashid said the treatment seeking behaviour of kidney patients in Bangladesh
showed that women face discrimination in treatments.
“The kidney donation rate show that about 70 per cent mothers and 10 per cent fathers donate kidneys to their children while 100 per cent women donate their kidneys to their husbands but husbands very rarely donate their kidneys for their wives,” he said.
He said, “The dialysis rate of female kidney patients is also very low.”
Bangladesh Association of Urology President MA Salam said women have some ailments that later develop into kidney disease. He said most women suffer from urine infections which sometimes lead to kidney disease.
“The doctors often prescribe anti-biotic and pain relievers for pain in the women’s urinary tract which ultimately damage the patients’ kidneys,” he said.
Bangladesh Renal Association President Rafiqul Alam said women suffer more from kidney diseases but their treatment is always overlooked.
Being unable to bear the expenses of their own treatment, women hide the disease for years, he said.
Bangladesh Obstetrics and Gynecology Society President Layla Arjumand Banu said the lifestyle of women often contribute to the disease.
She said women cannot urinate when they are outdoors and even consume less water for this reason, which plays a role in the development of kidney disease later on.
She said gaining of weight, urine infection and pregnancy sometimes bring additional miseries to women and contribute to the occurrence of the disease.
Film Actor Ferdous Ahmed said the society has to change its mindset towards women.
He said women cannot urinate while they are outdoors because of shame, unavailability of public toilets on the roads and shopping malls.
Ferdous said that because of our narrow outlook, women are deprived of basic health practices like passing of urine, breast feeding, maintaining hygiene during menstruation period and other common privacy related issues that are uncommon to men.
KAMPS Chairman MA Samad said there are about two crore people in Bangladesh who were somewhat suffering from kidney disease. He also advised on getting creatinine tests twice a year and avoiding anti-biotic and pain relievers to keep kidney disease at bay.
