Every year World Kidney is celebrated on the second Thursday of March. It is the global awareness campaign to raise awareness of the importance of kidneys to our health and to reduce the impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide. National Dialysis Programme under the National Health Mission is an initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. It was rolled out in 2016 with the involvement of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP Mode) at District Hospitals. The objective of this program is to provide important life-saving procedure close to the community and also for reducing impoverishment on account of out-of-pocket expenditure for patients. Talking with Ajay Bhandarkar who is a Urologist in Sujoy Hospital, practising since last 25 years regarding World Kidney day talks about how to be precautious, kidney’s health-related issues, symptoms, its cure, etc. He says, people have started becoming conscious about their health comparativ

Author-Shlok Talati