Chronic kidney disease: Why has a Parliamentary committee called for mandatory testing? | In Focus podcast
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended mandatory screening and a national registry for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in India. The report addresses the lack of early symptoms and the high prevalence of CKD of unknown origin among agricultural workers.
Why it matters
Implementing these recommendations could significantly improve early detection and public health outcomes for a silent, life-threatening condition.
It’s one of those conditions that has no symptoms during its early stages, meaning that by the time it is diagnosed, it could be very late: chronic kidney diseases, or CKD, has been in the news recently after a Parliamentary Standing Committee tabled a report on this condition in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month, and made a series of 66 recommendations. Significantly, the committee recommended diagnosis methodologies, called for a national CKD screening protocol and a registry, highlighted CKD of unknown etiology in certain States especially among agricultural workers and recommended greater use of peritoneal dialysis.
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