Press release
WORLD KIDNEY DAY TO BE MARKED IN MOLDOVA
Chisinau. The World Kidney Day will be marked on March 13, 2008 in the whole world. Actions, timed to coincide with the World Kidney Day, will take place throughout the entire republic. These actions were organized by the Ministry of Health Protection, Fundatia Renala (Kidney Foundation) and the Association of Recipients of Transplanted Organs.
According to the organizers, the World Kidney Day is conducted for the third successive year in the world and for the second successive year in Moldova Each year the date of the World Kidney Day changes, but it must be always the second Thursday of March. The World Kidney Day is the global initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundation.
The objective of the Day is to increase the population’s awareness of the kidney importance, the danger of renal diseases and methods to cure them.
In 2008 this Day will be carried out under the sign of the importance of prophylactic measures – meetings with doctors and patients will be conducted throughout the entire republic.
People, suffering from chronic renal diseases, are taken ill more often with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cardio-vascular diseases. When the renal function is worsening, a renal insufficiency appears and it is necessary to conduct dialysis for blood purification (artificial kidney apparatus) or the transplantation of a donor’s kidney.
For patients, suffering from chronic renal diseases, a risk to die prematurely from cardio-vascular diseases is on the average 100 times higher than the risk to reach the final stage of renal insufficiency.
Such simple analyses, as urine and blood tests allow detecting renal diseases fairly early and, if patients come to doctors in time, it is possible to retard and sometimes to stop the disease progress.
By the beginning of 2008 in Moldova 295 patients, suffering from renal diseases, were in need of hemodialysis and 32 – after kidney transplantation.
