{"id":128792,"date":"2022-09-26T15:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128792"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:25:00","slug":"8-state-of-the-art-chronic-kidney-disease-screening-vehicles-donated-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/26\/8-state-of-the-art-chronic-kidney-disease-screening-vehicles-donated-by-china\/","title":{"rendered":"8 state-of-the-art Chronic Kidney Disease Screening Vehicles  donated by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Today, 8 state-of-the-art CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) Screening Vehicles (mobile labs) worth LKR 660 million donated by China entered commissioning in 8 CKDu affected areas, i.e. Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Ampara, Kurunagala, Matale, Badulla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SriLankan people especially in the rural area are suffering in relation to CKD, known as the &#8220;silent killer&#8221;;, as patients live with the disease for years before showing symptoms. Early screening and detection will spare the patients with limited healthcare access from pain says the Chinese Embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 8 Screening Vehicles is part of joint effort to change the CKDs status quo, following the China Sri Lanka Friendship   National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa for treatment, and Joint Research &amp;amp; Demonstration Center for Water Technology in Kandy to find the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personnel training and equipment examining have been an important part of the donation, before the 8 mobile labs enter commissioning the embasy said in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Today, 8 state-of-the-art CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) Screening Vehicles (mobile labs) worth LKR 660 million donated by China entered commissioning in 8 CKDu affected areas, i.e. Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Ampara, Kurunagala, Matale, Badulla. SriLankan people especially in the rural area are suffering in relation to CKD, known as the &#8220;silent killer&#8221;;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}