About 40,000 kidney patients die every year in Bangladesh, as the trend of posthumous kidney donation here is very low compared to the developed countries.
The alarming figure came from a seminar organized here Tuesday by the Kidney Foundation, a non-profit organization, private news agency UNB reported.
The seminar was told that there are 20 million patients who are suffering from kidney diseases in Bangladesh, which is about 14 percent of the country's total population. More than 35,000 people are afflicted with kidney diseases every year and about 40,000 are dying due to kidney-related diseases.
Experts speaking on the occasion stressed the importance of posthumous kidney donation and urged the affluent section of society to extend their hands to the kidney patients so that they can transplant their kidneys.
President of the foundation professor Dr Harun-ur-Rashid said there are sufficient infrastructures in the country for posthumous kidney transplant.
He mentioned that 80-85 percent kidneys of the patients are transplanted in the developed country through posthumous kidney donation, but Bangladesh is in backward position as regards kidney donation this way.
The foundation president said death rate from kidney diseases would be reduced if cadaveric kidney transplant system ( transplanting kidney from deceased body) is fully implemented in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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