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ith chronic kidney disease remaining a threat globally and at home, Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital (RSCM) is committed to continuing to provide kidney transplants for people with end-stage renal disease. As the nation is preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, kidney transplants are performed in accordance with strict health protocols.
A report in The Lancet medical journal shows that globally, chronic kidney disease directly resulted in an estimated 1.23 million deaths in 2017, with an additional 1.36 million deaths attributable to cardiovascular disease resulting from impaired kidney function. Chronic kidney disease was the 12th leading cause of death globally in 2017, up from 17th in 1990.
There were 697.5 million cases of chronic kidney disease in 2017. Nearly one-third of those patients lived in two countries – China, with about 132 million cases, and India, with about 115 million. Further, 10 other nations – the United States, Indonesia, Russia, Japan, Brazil, Pakistan, Mexico, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Vietnam – each had more than 10 million cases in 2017.
Meanwhile, data from the Internal Disease Department of the School of Medicine of the University of Indonesia (FKUI)-RSCM reveals that 12.5 percent of the country’s population, some 30 million Indonesians, live with chronic kidney disease.
Urologist Nur Rasyid from the Urology Department at the FKUI-RSCM said kidney transplants could improve quality of life and increase the survival rate of patients with chronic kidney disease. Kidney transplantation is one of two therapies, the other being hemodialysis, available to treat patients with end-stage kidney disease.
“With healthy kidneys from donors, the function of patients’ kidneys of removing waste products and excess fluid from the body can return to normal. Their quality of life can increase and they can conduct their daily routines normally just like before they had kidney disease,” he said during a virtual media briefing to mark the relaunch of the RSCM’s kidney transplant services in Jakarta on Friday.
