(MENAFN) Local media reports quoted the government as saying on Friday that, more than 6,000 people in Sri Lanka have died from kidney diseases among 2016 to 2018.
Lands and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Gayantha Karunathilaka, answering on behalf of Health Minister, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne in Parliament said that 6,481 losses had been reported within last 3 years which contains 2,135 deaths in 2016, 2,159 deaths in 2017 and 2,187 deaths in 2018.
Through the time under review, there had been 17,503 kidney disease cases reported from hospitals as 787 people had undergone kidney transplants, the minister said that, some of the worst affected regions were Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, in north central Sri Lanka and Badulla in the lower central hills.
Sri Lanka and China previous year started the building of a state-of-the-art water testing laboratory at the Peradeniya University, in the central highlands of the island country to find a scientific key to end constant kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu), creation of this laboratory is predicted to end in May 2020.
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