Get to Know About Chronic Kidney Disease
In Nigeria, chronic kidney disease is an affliction equivalent to a death sentence. The reason is not far-fetched: there are few adequately equipped dialysis centers to cater to the urgent medical needs of sufferers and the fact that the majority of those afflicted are too poor to afford expensive dialysis treatment. Most disheartening is that chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially the catastrophic, life-threatening end-stage-kidney disease, is assuming frightening epidemic proportions in Nigeria. The majority of the sufferers are also young people between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the most productive years of their lives. Kidney disease sufferers face a complex set of challenges, with the poor, vulnerable and underprivileged in the society facing even more daunting challenges. This segment of the population can barely meet their basic needs for food, shelter, and clothing, much less access to expensive medical treatment and intervention in diagnosing, treating, and managing kidney failure.