Kidney

06 Oct

Dialysis Crisis: Ghanaians Should Start Donating Body Parts To Help Others – Dr. Nsiah Asare

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The President’s Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare has urged Ghanaians to learn how to donate parts of their bodies to help others in need of it. This, according to him, can help in solving issues of kidney failure in the country. He noted that it can also help to turn Ghana into a medical tourist centre in West Africa “People should also know how to donate parts of their bodies. You know we have two kidneys and normally we need out one kidney to carry out all the processes so you can easily donate,” he said. He went…

26 May

“Accept Early Death As Imminent” Doctors Tell Children Suffering From Kidney Diseases

Jackson Odom KpakpoNewsKATH, Kidney, Kidney Disease Children

"Accept Early Death As Imminent” Doctors Tell Children Suffering From Kidney Diseases The head of Child Health Department at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Professor Sampson Antwi, has revealed that, children who suffer from chronic kidney disease are often counseled to accept early death as imminent since their parents cannot afford the dialysis treatment cost. He said that, averagely 150 children suffer from the kidney disease annually. Professor Antwi told Wontumi Communications' Nana Owusu Achiaw that, 25-40 children out of the 150 children suffer from the chronic kidney disease. He enumerated that, the types of kidney disease that attack children…