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Aim :
The Kidney Care Project of CARE Foundation aims to promote kidney health
and offers care and support to patients suffering from Chronic Kidney
Disease (CKD), so that they are able to achieve the best health and
well-being possible, thus improving their overall quality of life.
The Kidney Care Project focuses on supporting people with chronic or
acute kidney failure.
Objectives :
1. Improving access to chronic kidney disease services by providing
different modalities of care.
2. Create awareness about cadaver kidney transplant
3. Popularize home dialysis
4. Design and make available education material in prevention, early
diagnosis and treatment options in kidney diseases
5. Assist family physicians in diagnosing kidney diseases earlier
6. Achieve better disease management through improved partnerships
between patients and their care providers
7. Achieve good co-ordination and outcomes of the care through a
multi-disciplinary approach with a number of providers with specialized
knowledge.
8. Reduce the financial burden of dialysis.
9. Carry out research on the epidemiology and prevention of kidney
diseases both in the urban as well as rural areas.
10. Make efforts to ensure that the various treatment tools and immuno-suppressants
are affordable by the patients and the society at large.
Why Kidney Care Project ?
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a world-wide health problem. Statistics
reveal that about 14 people per 1000 population suffer from Chronic
Kidney Disease in India. And, with the incidence of Diabetes and
Hypertension, the two most common causes of CKD increasing multifold in
this country, we are in for a CKD of epidemic proportions.
Most of these patients with CKD progress to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD),
which requires therapy in the form of dialysis or kidney transplant,
both of which are financially ruinous for the patient and the family,
place a huge burden on the health care system and cause a great drain on
the scarce financial resources of the country. While dialysis costs
about Rs.15,000 to Rs 20,000 monthly, for kidney transplant patients,
the expenditure is about Rs10,000 to Rs.15,000 per month, though the
expenditure comes down gradually for transplant cases.
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