World Kidney Disease Day Charity Clinic

  The slogan of Kidney Day is “Kidney health starts from children”, which fully reflects the concern and attention of countries all over the world for children’s kidney health, prevention of kidney diseases and active prevention during childhood. In order to make more kidney disease patients get the guidance from the specialist, and to raise the awareness of the general public and patients about kidney disease and health prevention, so that more patients can benefit, the Department of Nephrology of Fangshan District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine held a large-scale health education and consultation activity of “the 11th World Kidney Day” in the morning of 10th in the outpatient hall. More than 100 patients were given health consultation and 280 copies of health promotion materials were distributed, which were well received by the patients and the public.  President Xu Xisheng and Vice President Zhang Hong of Fangshan District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine attended the event and fully affirmed the work of the Department of Nephrology, and put forward the earnest hope to do a good job of health education on kidney disease and popularization of kidney disease knowledge, taking into account the low awareness and low knowledge rate of kidney disease among the public. According to statistics, the total prevalence rate of chronic kidney disease in China reaches 10%, which is a common and frequent disease endangering human health. The onset of kidney disease is insidious, and once it develops into uremia, it will bring heavy economic burden to families and society.  As a key department of health education, the nephrology department of Fangshan District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine always adheres to the concept of people-oriented and patient-centered services, attaches great importance to the health education of patients, undertakes the health education tasks of the hospital every month, cultivates the health education ability of young physicians in the department, sets up a health education group, and spreads chronic The Department of Renal Diseases of Fangshan Hospital has been developing the health education ability of young physicians in the department, forming health education groups, and disseminating the knowledge of prevention and treatment of chronic kidney diseases, the culture of Chinese medicine and the characteristics of the department through various forms such as voluntary consultation, lectures, rural visits, network and education. The nephrology department of Fangshan District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine reminds everyone to have regular medical checkups to know whether there are diseases that can easily lead to kidney damage, such as hypertension, diabetes, gout, etc., and not to use drugs indiscriminately if there are diseases. For children, we should do a good job in preventing and treating kidney disease from the aspects of “less salt, less junk food, avoiding infection, and not using drugs indiscriminately”.