Chronic kidney failure is on upward trend in Vietnam, said medical expert at a seminar held lately. 

Though the disease is not dangerous, the quality of life was lower in the patients with pain compared to those had not; additionally, patients must spend a huge amount of money for treatment.

Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung, head of the Kidney Disease ward in Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital, said that people with kidney disease account for 7 percent of the country’s population while around 26,000 

Vietnamese people suffer the renal failure in the last stage who put on hemodialysis accounting for 0.016 percent of the country’s population. 

From 2008 to 2010, the rate of patients with renal failure in the last stage and had to put on hemodialysis is just 6percent to 8 percent yet it soared to 14-16 percent in 2016. It is estimated in 2020, it could rise to 30- 40 percent.

Dr. Pham Van Bui chairman of Blood Filtering Association of Vietnam said that ten percent of world population has the disease. 

Though it is not communicable disease, of every ten people one has it. 

Death will come within a few weeks when patients with kidney disease in the last stage are left untreated because they can’t afford hemodialysis fee of VND800,000 to one million. 

They have to put on hemodialysis two or three a month. Therefore, treatment fee is a big financial burden for patients.

In the International Kidney Day held on March 9 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, experts fro the World Health Organization warned of the relationship between obesity and kidney disease. 

Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung said that obesity and kidney disease caused many other noncommunicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease.

Medical workers said that preventive medicine task plays important role in reducing the number of chronic kidney disease people. 

Moreover,  obese people should reduce their weight by monitoring the diet and increase exercise daily.

SGGP