Activities Planned for Year 2025
- To conduct educational programs for school children and adults in a selected community during the month of March to mark the ‘World Kidney Day’ to highlight the potentially life-changing impact of early detection and intervention in preventing and managing kidney disease.
- To help the patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
- To continue to help in purchasing catheters for CAPD (the cost of a catheter is approximately 55,000 rupees).
- To make arrangements to help patients transport the boxes of dialysis fluid from the hospital to their residence.
Background – A patient on CAPD needs about 42 boxes of dialysis fluid (about 330 kilograms in weight) every 6 weeks to be used at home. The patients from far have to spend lot of money to transport the boxes.
- To conduct a screening program for kidney disease in a high-risk community in Girandurukotte, by testing blood pressure, serum creatinine and urine albumin.
- To conduct an eye clinic for kidney patients and their families and to provide spectacles free of charge
- To strengthen the ongoing sponsorship program
5th Annual General Meeting 2024-2025
The 4th Annual General Meeting of the Peradeniya Kidney Protection Society will be held around middle of 2025 at the Board Room of the Teaching Hospital Peradeniya. Life members are kindly requested to attend the meeting. If you are unable to attend please inform Prof. N. Ratnatunga.
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