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Kidney disease is a silent health problem

Chronic kidney disease is more prevalent that many people think. Some 1.7 million hospitalisations are associated with chronic kidney disease and this represents 17 per cent of all hospitalisations in the country. Significantly, one in nine deaths in 2014 had chronic kidney disease as an underlying factor and/or associated cause of death. But alarmingly, less […]

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