Bhubaneswar, October 29: The Odisha Government on Thursday organised a brainstorming session for situational analysis, management, control and prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the State. Experts, senior specialists, researchers from different institutions and departments deliberated on the issue. The findings of different global, national and state level research studies were presented and analysed by the experts.

With successful roll out of free dialysis services throughout the State, the State Government has now initiated steps to manage and prevent the chronic disease. Health and Family Welfare Secretary Aswathy S attended the session held at the combined Health Directorate in Bhubaneswar.

Deliberations in the session showed a rising trend of CKD in different parts of India. Odisha also witnessed a rising trend of CKD patients in some areas of different districts. These patients are getting free dialysis treatment in around 70 dialysis centres across the state.

Currently, more than 18,800 patients were under active dialysis in Government facilities. Besides, many patients are also getting cashless dialysis and treatment under ABPMJAY-GJAY in private hospitals.

The technical committee deliberated on different types of CKD related to diabetes, hypertension, wrong life style, genetic factors and other unknown causes. It was decided that detailed studies would be conducted on nature and causes of CDK in Odisha.

Secretary Aswathy S. advised to engage the interested and willing researchers from different medical colleges, OUAT, RMRC, ICMR, SIHFW in the during research and study.

It was also decided to prepare a CKD registry for Odisha with available data from different sources which would serve the baseline for further research studies and analysis. All these would be integrated with a web-based portal to be worked out by National Informatics Centre (NIC).

A simple and clear-cut message on prevention and early detection of kidney disease would be developed by the technical committee for dissemination among people. The committee would also work out the strategies for screening and early diagnosis of kidney diseases. Further, it would help in secondary analysis of data, assessment of block wise disease burden, and modelling of uniform protocol for investigation of reported CKD clusters.

Mission Director, National Health Mission Dr Brundha D., Special Secretary Health Services Dr Bijaya Mohapatra, Director Public Health Dr Nilakantha Mishra, Director Medical Education and Training Dr Santosh Mishra, Director Health Services Dr Pradeep Guru, Professor Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences Hyderabad Dr Gangadhar T, senior professors and experts from OUAT, RMRC, , MKCG, State RRT, IDSP, Scientists from departments of forest environment and climate change, agriculture and drinking water and others participated in deliberations.