{"id":43668,"date":"2015-05-07T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43668"},"modified":"2015-05-07T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:03:28","slug":"ckdmfo-urgent-action-needed-by-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/07\/ckdmfo-urgent-action-needed-by-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"CKDmfo – URGENT Action Needed by the Government:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Sunil J Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

To Secretary to the President<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Abeykoon:<\/p>\n

We are very concerned that to-date, the successive governments have failed to take prompt and right actions to prevent this deadly disease, in spite of over 5,000 of our poor farmers are prematurely dying each year causing these families to become destitute.<\/p>\n

Since “CKD of multi-factorial of origin” (CKDmfo; previously known as CKDuo) issues span across a number of ministries and departments, none has taken (or will take) the responsibility or accountability to-date, to prevent this deadly disease.\u00a0 CKD-Task Forces will not work.\u00a0 Actions taken if any, it is too little and too late. Meanwhile, compared to several other ministries and departments, the Department of Health\/Ministry of Health has little role to play in this regards (http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/150503\/sunday-times-2\/kidney-disease-in-ncp-focus-on-prevention-147418.html<\/a> ).<\/p>\n

All CKD-Tasks Forces have consistently failed and , not surprisingly, the current one will have the same fate. \u00a0 Establishing CKD Eradication Authority<\/span> <\/strong>is the only way<\/span> forward to prevent this deadly disease from Sri Lanka. However, to be effective, to move forward, and to avoid conflicts of interests, we strongly recommend that none of the<\/span> previous or current<\/span> CKD-Task Force member to be included in the new CKD Eradication Authority. It needs a fresh start with fresh blood, and new thinking<\/span>.\u00a0 Unlike Task Forces, there are plenty of highly dedicated, erudite, retired\u201d scientists in this field with credible academic background, who can effectively manage the CKD eradication authority, without introducing conflicts of interests.<\/p>\n

We urge the President to replace all existing CKD-related asks Forces and units, and to establish a new dedicated Agency, charged with eradication of CKDmfo (CKD-Eradication Authority<\/strong>; CKD-EA<\/strong>) [or fund PHEPRO charitable Foundation for the same purpose] that is headed by a credible, senior scientist with necessary academic qualifications and field experience; reporting directly to the President<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Expanding dialysis centres or creating new hospitals are NOT<\/strong> the answer to this problem. In fact, we do not need new CKD or Renal hospital(s) as some proposed whether these are donated, or created from public or private funds.
\nWe understand that the Department of Health is intended to import 200 dialysis new machine at a cost of 2.5 billion rupees.\u00a0 In fact, we can double the capacity of renal dialysis, without importing a single dialysis machine!
\nIt is ironic that what is necessary to eradicate CKD menace from Sri Lanka\u00a0is less than 2.0 billion rupees<\/span>!!!\u00a0\u00a0 It is truly puzzling the lack of consideration to implement the programs we have proposed (a synopsis is attached) to do so, rather that than speeding (wasting) over 2.0 billion rupees of taxpayers funds per year for dialysis and opportunity costs.\u00a0 ONE year’s economic losses for the country due to CKD is adequate to eradicate this disease!
\nIf money is earmarked for such, that should be use for prevention and eradication of this disease. When the disease is prevented using the action plan that we have proposed to the President, the demand and the need for renal dialysis will go down markedly.\u00a0\u00a0We are puzzled why then going to have these unnecessary White Elephants?<\/p>\n

We look forward to hearing from you and working with you to overcome this National Crisis that has become a Chronic Emergency.
\nTogether we can prevent this fatal disease.<\/p>\n

Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Sunil Wimalawansa<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Prof. Sunil J Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc<\/p>\n

President, PHEPHRO and WF Foundations<\/p>\n

[Professor of Medicine Endocrinology & Nutrition]<\/p>\n

Behalf of all members of the CKDmfo Prevention & Eradication Group.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prof. Sunil J Wimalawansa, MD, PhD, MBA, DSc To Secretary to the President: Dear Mr. Abeykoon: We are very concerned that to-date, the successive governments have failed to take prompt and right actions to prevent this deadly disease, in spite of over 5,000 of our poor farmers are prematurely dying each year causing these families […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43668","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=43668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}