There is a growing concern about the increasing rate of kidney diseases in Ghana with 13 out of 100 people believed to be having some form of kidney disease. This translates to about four million of the over 30 million Ghanaians living with kidney diseases, a situation that requires urgent attention from all stakeholders. A Consultant Nephrologist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Elliot Koranteng Tannor, who made the disclosure said the danger is that people are getting kidney diseases at younger ages in Ghana. “Our average age of people with kidney failures and on dialysis is about 46 years which is worrying,” he said at a public lecture in Kumasi to commemorate World Kidney Day. The public lecture was put together by the Ghana Kidney Association in collaboration
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With the world marking the World Cancer Day on 5 February, a medic in Kericho has urged Kericho residents to prioritize healthy lifestyle to prevent pancreatic cancer, a rare form of cancer that is not easy to detect and treat. Pancreatic cancer is a type of cancer that begins as a growth of cells in the pancreas which is an organ found behind the lower part of the stomach. The pancreas work is to make enzymes that digest food as well as insulin that helps manage blood sugar. In an interview with KNA, a resident surgeon at AIC Litein Kericho annex clinic Dr. Philip Blasto noted that pancreatic cancer has no screening tests to detect it early and the symptoms are seen when the disease has advanced. “Pancreatic cancer is