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A Consultant and Case Manager, Stella Obasanjo Hospital in Edo State, Dr. Osariemen Osunbor, has said that kidney disease is gradually tilting towards being a global pandemic.
He expressed fears that the disease which occupied the 27th position in the causes of deaths in 1990 to 18th position in 2010, is now the 10th position as the leading cause of deaths worldwide.
Osunbor expressed this apprehension in Benin City, on the occasion of the second Ordinary General Meeting/Scientific Conference of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Edo State Health Management Board.
The consultant who gave a lecture on the topic, “The Menace of Chronic Kidney Disease; Way Forward”, declared that the disease has become a global burden.
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