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Kidney ailment a silent killer: Malek
DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 24 (BSS) - Special Assistant to the Chief
Adviser Brigadier General (retd) M A Malek today termed the
kidney disease as a 'silent killer' and urged all concerned to
make the people aware of the disease.
"Around 15 percent people of the country are suffering from
kidney ailment," he said, "but the country has serious lack of
treatment facilities and awareness."
He was speaking at a function on the occasion of draw of the
first phase of Kidney Foundation Lottery-2008 at Diploma
Engineers' Institute here.
There is a good scope in the country to build kidney-
specialized hospital under the partnership of public and private
sectors like joint venture initiatives taken for treatment of
cardiac, diabetes, cancer and other diseases, he said.
The Special Assistant assured that the government would
provide all support for the private promoters in building kidney
hospitals in the country.
With chairman of Kidney Foundation Prof Dr Harun ar Rashid
in the chair, the function was addressed, among others, by
Managing Director of the Sonali Bank Ltd. SA Chowdhury, President
of Bangladesh Shishu Swastha Foundation National Professor Dr M R
Khan, Chief Adviser of ATN-Bangla Saiful Bari and Secretary of
the Kidney Foundation Prof Dr Mohibur Rahman.
MA Malek praised the initiative for establishing a kidney
hospital in Mirpur and urged the philanthropists to extend their
support to the project.
Other speakers said about two crore kidney patients are
there in the country with 40,000 new patients coming in the row
every year. Of them, 38,000 poor patients die without treatment
due to high treatment cost.
They urged the government and all concerned to reduce the
treatment cost of kidney diseases and urged the affluent section
of the society to come forward in this regard.
In the lottery draw, ticket number Ga-219232 won the first
prize of Taka 25 lakh while ticket number Uma-237832 and ticket
number Kha-318015 won the second prize of Taka 3 lakh and third
prize of Taka 55,000 respectively.
Adviser Brigadier General (retd) M A Malek today termed the
kidney disease as a 'silent killer' and urged all concerned to
make the people aware of the disease.
"Around 15 percent people of the country are suffering from
kidney ailment," he said, "but the country has serious lack of
treatment facilities and awareness."
He was speaking at a function on the occasion of draw of the
first phase of Kidney Foundation Lottery-2008 at Diploma
Engineers' Institute here.
There is a good scope in the country to build kidney-
specialized hospital under the partnership of public and private
sectors like joint venture initiatives taken for treatment of
cardiac, diabetes, cancer and other diseases, he said.
The Special Assistant assured that the government would
provide all support for the private promoters in building kidney
hospitals in the country.
With chairman of Kidney Foundation Prof Dr Harun ar Rashid
in the chair, the function was addressed, among others, by
Managing Director of the Sonali Bank Ltd. SA Chowdhury, President
of Bangladesh Shishu Swastha Foundation National Professor Dr M R
Khan, Chief Adviser of ATN-Bangla Saiful Bari and Secretary of
the Kidney Foundation Prof Dr Mohibur Rahman.
MA Malek praised the initiative for establishing a kidney
hospital in Mirpur and urged the philanthropists to extend their
support to the project.
Other speakers said about two crore kidney patients are
there in the country with 40,000 new patients coming in the row
every year. Of them, 38,000 poor patients die without treatment
due to high treatment cost.
They urged the government and all concerned to reduce the
treatment cost of kidney diseases and urged the affluent section
of the society to come forward in this regard.
In the lottery draw, ticket number Ga-219232 won the first
prize of Taka 25 lakh while ticket number Uma-237832 and ticket
number Kha-318015 won the second prize of Taka 3 lakh and third
prize of Taka 55,000 respectively.
