Mamun Abdul Gayyum, former president of the Maldives, on Thursday said that the health service providers from his country could obtain training on the treatment of kidney related diseases from Bangladesh.
He said this at a programme held by the Kidney Foundation Hospital and Research Institute at its office.
Gayyum came to Dhaka on June 26 to attend the 4th convocation of the University of Science and Technology of Chittagong held Wednesday.
Gayyum, presently chairman of Mamun Foundation, also stressed that the two organisations exchanged knowledge of modern medical sciences.
Every year around 18 million people in Bangladesh get affected with kidney related diseases, said the physicians at the programme.
Harun-r-Rashid, president of the KFHRI, said that both kidney transplantation and dialysis, the only treatments available at present for irreversibly damaged kidneys, were very costly.
National Professor Nurul Islam and former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Nazrul Islam attended the programme, among others.
Source : New Age
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