Number of chronic kidney patients undergoing dialysis triples
The Malaysian Insider March 20, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The number of chronic kidney patients in the country who have to undergo dialysis has increased from 79 per million population in 2000 to 146 per million in 2009, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today.
He said that based on the National Renal Registry, the total number of patients on dialysis had grown from 6,689 in 2000 to 21,159 in 2009, putting a serious strain on Malaysia’s health resources.
“A whopping 58 per cent of these patients have diabetes and eight per cent have hypertension as the cause. This puts Malaysia in the unenviable position of probably having the highest percentage of patients in the world with diabetes as the cause of end-stage kidney failure,” he said in his speech at the opening of the national-level World Kidney Day Run 2011 at Dataran Merdeka, here.
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