DAVITA Kidney Care, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., a leading independent provider of integrated Good health and kidney care services in Saudi Arabia, celebrated Globe Kidney Day on Thursday (March 10) across the Kingdom. Local communities were invited to participate in events to learn regarding the prevention of chronic kidney health problem and the importance of leading a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Activities were held in 6 malls, in the cities of Jeddah, Riyadh, Al Ahsa, Buraidah, Abha, Al Majardah and Taif, areas where nearly 1,000 renal failure patients are already benefiting from DaVita’s dialysis centers. Those that visited the malls were offered the opportunity to have actually their blood pressure, sugar levels and weight checked by trained healthcare professionals, so they could be individually assessed on their personal risk factors for kidney disease. Those visiting the stands were additionally able to receive tailored suggestions from doctors and nutritionists on exactly how finest to minimize their risk of kidney health problem through minor modifications in their day-to-day lives.
“DaVita is committed to raising the awareness of chronic kidney health problem in Saudi Arabia,” said Dr Abdulkareem Al Suwaida, DaVita chief medical officer in the Kingdom. “This is a health problem that can easily be significantly reasonable through straightforward modifications to lifestyle and diet, and we understand the importance of functioning along with local communities to highlight the necessity for prevention.”
As Portion of its commitment to offer the Saudi population along with the very best feasible resources to assistance avoid the onset of kidney disease, DaVita has actually recently made an online risk assessment and recipe tool, which offers a range of kidney-friendly recipes that are basic to cook and usage a mixture of ingredients to match every one of appetites.
According to the current figures published by the Saudi focus for Organ Transplantation (SCOT), the incidence of end-stage renal health problem (ESRD) in the Kingdom has actually been increasing in recent years, affecting much more compared to 15,780 patients in 2014. In order to assistance delivering best-in-class treatment and care to Saudi patients, the Ministry of Good health awarded DaVita Kidney Care a contract in early 2014 to open and run roughly 75 brand-new centers across the Kingdom by the end of 2018. DaVita has actually already opened eight kidney clinics across the Kingdom, offering cutting-edge technology and bringing world-class kidney care to isolated and hard to reach communities. — SG
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