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A call to action: Strategies for prevention of kidney failure in Nigeria (1)
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Tue Jul 20 2021
Public health is best distinguished from clinical medicine by its emphasis on preventing disease rather than curing it, and its focus on populations and communities rather than the individual patient. Prevention of kidney failure is a crucial public health goal.
No country has a limitless amount of resources. How any society deploys their healthcare funds is consequential. Stressing disease prevention is not just our only hope of alleviating our intractable primary healthcare problems, but is extremely cost-effective.
To put it bluntly, the overwhelming majority of Nigerians who develop end-stage kidney failure cannot afford dialysis or kidney transplantation and are typically dead within a few months.