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Child kidney diseases on the rise 50 thousand children die each year [1]

Kidney diseases among the people under 15 are on the rise and they now constitute half of the total renal patients in the country, renal specialists said on Wednesday.
The nephrologists said an estimated 49 lakh adolescents and children suffer from different kidney aliments and 50 thousand of them die each year due to renal failure. Ninety per cent of these patients die without treatment.

Publication Date: 
12/03/2009
New Age (Bangladesh) [2]
Tags:
Infant mortality [3], Children [4], Renal Failure [5], Bangladesh [6]
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