2023-06-14 10:13:07
We have not finished warning regarding the fact of trivializing certain diseases and taking their causes and consequences lightly. Any treatment is necessary. Talking regarding it even more is also in order. Because we never trifle with health.
That said, awareness is a key word, especially since prevention seems, without doubt, the ideal solution. Prevention is better than cure, it is often recommended. In the wake of its advice and vocations, the Association for the Fight once morest Chronic Diseases, in collaboration with the medical and paramedical scientific committees of the El Omrane policlinic in Tunis, will organize, on the 22nd of this month, its 3e kidney disease awareness and screening day. That is, a few months following the sending to the Cnss Métlaoui, in Gafsa, of a health caravan specializing in breast cancer. This stems from the deep conviction of the association and its president, Dr Nejia Ben Moussa, that access to healthcare is a universal human right guaranteed by all the constitutions of the world.
Learn more regarding the disease
And the day next Thursday focused on kidney disease is also part of the sacred duty to inform and communicate on any high-risk health problem. Kidney failure is one of the pathologies whose evolution our doctors follow, in order to stem it and reduce the rate of its incidence on the scale of the country. “In Tunisia, 12,000 cases of patients on dialysis, some 2,000 kidney transplants and several people with chronic kidney failure are still on the waiting list for a kidney transplant,” it said. . These figures say a lot regarding the incidence of such a disease that nephrologists have often described as silent and whose late diagnosis multiplies the consequences.
But what do we know regarding this disease which slowly settles in the body without feeling it and whose first signs hardly cause pain? According to specialists, chronic kidney disease is a slow and progressive deterioration in the ability of the kidneys to filter metabolic waste from the blood. That said, our kidneys no longer fulfill their functions. We then arrive at the stage of renal insufficiency, of which diabetes and arterial hypertension are among the main causes. And there, diabetics and hypertensives are considered high-risk subjects. Hence it is important to know more. And the more we detect the disease early, the more we accelerate its treatment. If necessary, dialysis or a kidney transplant is used. And here comes the question of organ donation.
Consultations planned
And for good reason. The expected awareness day, next Thursday, at the policlipicnic Cnss El Omrane, plans several consultations which will have to take place, since the morning. According to a press release that has reached us, there will be a whole program concocted for this purpose. In fact, a plethora of medical specialists will tackle taking blood pressure in a standing and sitting position, weight, and take blood tests with creatinine and clearance analysis. Idem, there will be ultrasound of the kidneys according to the indication. Then, the distribution of awareness leaflets on the disease.
Note that a large number of doctors will take part in this day. This is D.r Nejia Ben Moussa, head of the radiology department at the El Omrane polyclinic, professor Daghfous, ex-head of the HHT radiology department, Agrebi Sahar, nephrologist at the Charles Nicole hospital, Dr Abdelziz Falfoul, former head of the gynecology department at Nabeul hospital, Badis Channoufi, of the maternity department at Wassila Bourguiba hospital, Karim Belhaj and Ilyès Krichène, both urologists, Henda Jammoussi and Abdelmajid Abid, nutritionists, as well as Dr Hedia Ben Slimane, former head of the endocrinology and diabetology department at Rabta. A long list of specialists with whom the paramedical staff of the said policli is willingly associated.nique.
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