Although 60 percent kidney ailments are curable yet one in five kidney patients die in every hour in the country, leading health experts told a seminar here yesterd, reports BSS. The number of kidney patients has increased alarmingly as two crore people in the country are now somehow suffering from kidney disease, said the seminar titled “Kidney disease prevention and living and deceased kidney donation”. Nephrology Department of Dhaka Medical college, Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation jointly organized the seminar in the Shawkat Osman Memorial auditorium of Central Public Library. Chief Advisor of Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation National Prof MR Khan, Managing Trustee of Mohan Foundation Dr Sunil Shroff, member of board of trustee of Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation and renowned kidney specialist Prof Dr Harun-or -Rashid, Head of Department of Pediatrics of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital(DMCH) Prof Dr Md Ekhalasur Rahman, Head of Department of Nephrology of DMCH Prof Nizam Uddin Chowdhury and Chairman of Save Life Foundation and President of Gift Live Foundation Save Life Foundation and Gift Life Foundation Dr Sohely Ahmed Sweety, among others, addressed the seminar with Prof Abu Yusuf Fakir in the chair.