Kidney failure patients rush to China<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Some 300 local kidney failure patients have undergone transplant
\nsurgery in China over the last decade as they could not find
\ndonors at home, an association revealed on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Muchrodji, an advisor to the Indonesian Kidney Transplant
\nAssociation (PACGI), said the patients underwent their operations
\nin the Taiping People's Hospital in Guangdong.<\/p>\n
He claimed 99 percent of the operations were successful and
\nthe patients were now living normal lives.<\/p>\n
He was addressing a symposium on improving the quality of life
\nof kidney failure patients.<\/p>\n
Muchrodji encouraged patients to undergo kidney transplant
\noperations as the overall cost was less than dialysis.<\/p>\n
Kidney transplants seemed to be expensive, but afterward the
\npatients no longer needed dialysis or to adhere to a strict diet.
\nThey could also start working normally again.<\/p>\n
Patients who opted for dialysis had to carry out the procedure
\ntwice a week and were unable to work normally.<\/p>\n
The PACGI is an association aimed at providing information on
\nthe prevention and cure of kidney disease. It also engages in
\nfundraising to support patients of limited means suffering from
\nkidney disease.<\/p>\n
Gao Wei of the Taiping Hospital, who attended the symposium,
\nsaid he would promote kidney transplants here and cooperate with
\nlocal hospitals in helping them to carry out the operation.<\/p>\n
He said a Taiping clinic would be built in Jakarta to diagnose
\nkidney failure patients before they were transferred to China for
\nsurgery, thus reducing the treatment period in China from a week
\nto three days.<\/p>\n
Separately, secretary-general of the Indonesian Nephrology
\nAssociation (Pernefri) Suhardjono suggested that the government
\nenact a new law facilitating people if they wished to donate
\ntheir kidneys to other people who needed them.<\/p>\n
\"Therefore, around 50,000 patients here could be helped by
\nkidney transplant operations,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Kidney failure is common for those who suffer from, among
\nother ailments, high blood pressure, diabetes and kidney stones.<\/p>\n
The usual symptoms are exhaustion, loss of appetite and
\nanemia.<\/p>",
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