Because every woman deserves a right to healthy kidneys…

Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide health problem with adverse health outcomes
It affects approximately 195 million women worldwide and is currently the 8th leading cause of death in woman with up to 600000 deaths yearly

The risk of developing ckd for women is as high as those for men and some studies postulate that it could even be higher.

Nigeria is faced with a lot of challenges…first as a low resource country, they have paucity of data on the current sufferers of kidney disease as well as scarce availability of both skilled personnel and resources required for renal replacement therapy
It’s also been seen that women on dialysis are a far fewer number than the men. 3 major reasons that have been recognized include the fact that

1. women tend to progress slower in the disease process than the men
2 Women are also stymied by psycho- socio economic barriers and it includes a lack of disease awareness and this causes them to late start or even not start dialysis.
Also,
3 uneven access to care plays a role in ensuring that women get the short end of the stick with regards to kidney care.
It’s been found out that even in countries that provide equitable distribution of health care and renal transplantation, women tend to donate kidneys more and receive kidneys less

There is a burden….a clear need to increase awareness and facilitate improved access to treatments and better renal outcomes
In Nigeria…a lot needs to be done. This year’s world kidney incidentally coincides with the international women’s day. And we say…that everywoman deserves safe healthcare, and its our prayer that this is achievable in my generation

Credits to international society for nephrology, national kidney foundation,KDIGO

OLISA OBIOSA
CONSULTANT NEPHROLOGIST
MINISTRY OF HEALTH ASABA

Awareness is key.
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