INDIAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

              700 Nephrologists from across the country are congregating for the 41st annual conference of the Indian society of Nephrology from Thursday to Sunday (December 1 to 4-2010) at Thiruvananthapuram.

             The increasing burden of diabetes and hypertension in the Indian population ,chronic kidney diseases are highly prevalent. There are only 1000 nephrologists in the country,most of them in teriary care centres.

              'The symptoms of renal failure manifests externally only when the functioning of the kidney has gone down by about 85 percents, when the patient has reached the end stage renal disease and when the only answer for survival is a kidney transplant. There is an urgent need to create public awareness of the importance of early detection and treatment of renal diseases,given the fact that some 25-40 percent of those with diabetes and hypertension develop chronic kidney disease.

Prof.John Kurakar