Tribunnews.com Reporter, Rina Ayu
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – One in 10 people in the world are listed as patient kidney chronic (PGK). PGK also became one disease largest contributor to death in the world.
Unfortunately 9 out of 10 people are too late to realize it.
Chairman of the Indonesian Dialysis Patient Community (KPCDI) Tony Richard Samosir explained, those who don’t know have failed kidney because of the lack of literacy and education about the dangers and signs of getting sick kidney.
“This is certainly a big problem in the world and must be resolved immediately,” said Toni some time ago.
This year’s commemoration of World Kidney Day (WKD) takes the theme ‘Healthy Kidneys for All: Bridging the Knowledge Gap for Better Kidney Health’.
Also read: One in 10 People in the World is a Chronic Kidney Patient
CKD also has an impact on social life such as limited work, travel, education, finances, limited diet, changes in lifestyle and social activities which will result in poor health quality. patient because they feel they are useless.
Communication and education approaches are needed to improve the quality of life patientbuilds the strength of strategies and efforts to manage stress so that it is useful when experiencing difficulties and trauma when starting dialysis.
In addition, it requires encouragement from all stakeholders to ensure that there is no discrimination, and gaps in the health care system also need to be identified, so that all patient given the opportunity to speak out.
“Access to good dialysis information will also provide a sense of comfort for patient. Where during the current pandemic there are still many patient kidney chronic patients who get discriminatory treatment from certain parties,” he said.
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