Cause of kidney diseases in the NCP yet unknown – GMOA
By Zahrah Imtiaz-
By Darshana Medis
By Zahrah Imtiaz-
The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) said there are 150,000 kidney patients in the North Central Province (NCP), and 20,000 of them die annually, due to the disease.
Sri Lanka: Kidney disease takes at least two lives a day
Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)
By Darshana Medis
18 June 2013
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), the causes of which have not been fully identified, is taking at least two lives a day in Sri Lanka’s North Central and Uva provinces. It has already killed more than 20,000 people, mainly from poor farming families, over the past two decades.
