Tackling increasing kidney patients

It was revealed that 16 per cent of the country’s population is suffering from kidney-related diseases due to intake of chemically contaminated and adulterated food. While chemically poisonous foods are wreaking havoc on public health, the grim fact is that availability of treatment for specialized diseases in the country as a whole is very limited. So is the case with kidney related ailments.

Treatment for serious kidney condition, be it haemodialysis or transplant, is very costly and beyond the capacity of most people in the country. As a result, because of the organ failure, every year hundreds of kidney patients are accepting death as their lot. But if the government makes available a fair arrangement of haemodialysis programme at each public medical hospital, life of many kidney patients can be saved or at least extended. Moreover, there is also the necessity of relaxing the relevant law to make organ transplant easier.

Besides it is equally important to make people aware of the preventive side of tackling kidney ailment. It is not just chemically poisonous foods that enhance risk of kidney ailment, such health conditions as hypertension and diabetes tremendously impact the end organs of the body including kidney and eye.

So, awareness on the necessity to keep hypertension and diabetes under control can go a long way to protect the vital body part. People in general ought to be made conscious of this. Finally the government’s relevant department and agencies must ensure that foods that we consume are safe for consumption. It is as important to ensure this at the grower’s or producer’s level as it is at the retail market.

As lead, arsenic, antibiotic and other heavy metals are increasingly found in different food items such as vegetables, rice, salt, liquid milk, fish and chicken, it is crucial that government be mindful about ensuring that these are free from contamination or adulteration.

There is no limit of people’s worry about foods in this country because of adulteration as it involves their health, the most valuable thing a man have in life. But many dishonest farmers or businessmen show no moral compunction while producing or selling foods. This must change, if necessary, by applying force.    

 

 

Tackling increasing kidney patients

It was revealed that 16 per cent of the countrys population is suffering from kidney-related diseases due to intake of chemically contaminated and adulterated food. While chemically poisonous foods are wreaking havoc on public health, the grim fact is that availability of treatment for specialized diseases in the country as a whole is very limited. So is the case with kidney related ailments. Treatment for serious kidney condition, be it haemodialysis or transplant, is very costly and beyond the capacity of most people in the country. As a result, because of the organ failure, every year hundreds of kidney patients are accepting death as their lot. But if the government makes available a fair arrangement of haemodialysis programme at each public medical hospital, life of many kidney patients can be saved or at least extended. Moreover, there is also the necessity of relaxing the relevant law to make organ transplant easier. Besides it is equally important to make people aware of the preventive side of tackling kidney ailment. It is not just chemically poisonous foods that enhance risk of kidney ailment, such health conditions as hypertension and diabetes tremendously impact the end organs of the body including kidney and eye. So, awareness on the necessity to keep hypertension and diabetes under control can go a long way to protect the vital body part. People in general ought to be made conscious of this. Finally the governments relevant department and agencies must ensure that foods that we consume are safe for consumption. It is as important to ensure this at the growers or producers level as it is at the retail market. As lead, arsenic, antibiotic and other heavy metals are increasingly found in different food items such as vegetables, rice, salt, liquid milk, fish and chicken, it is crucial that government be mindful about ensuring that these are free from contamination or adulteration. There is no limit of peoples worry about foods in this country because of adulteration as it involves their health, the most valuable thing a man have in life. But many dishonest farmers or businessmen show no moral compunction while producing or selling foods. This must change, if necessary, by applying force.