Providing celebrities to visit our foundation every once in 3 days, starting from the first week of March, because of the World Kidney Day
Appliying free kidney health scan in schools at World Kidney Day
Providing Super league teams to enter the field with "Turkish Kidney Foundation" banners following the weekend that the World Kidney Day takes place
Preparing visual and sensorial spots which will be broadcasted freely on Lig Tv and Lig Radio at the World Kidney Day
Printing "World Kidney Day" spots freely on newspapers
Hanging special "World Kidney Day" posters to 100 places that
Hanging "World Kidney Day" cloth-banners to 10 spots
Providing a discussion panel at World Kidney Day with the participation of important lecturers and CNN Türk channel
Organising a "Donate your organ" Walk from İncirli to Bakırköy center with the cooperation of Bakırköy Municipality at the World Kidney Day, preparing "Donate your organ" t-shirts for this walk, maintaining the walk to be productive, getting support from CNN Türk family to reflect this walk to the public
Distribution of "World Kidney Day" promotions at our stands in 5 shopping centers
Arranging our president of the foundation to attend certain and regular health programmes that take place in the visual and written media at the World Kidney Day
Going to a theatre or movies with our children patients at the World Kidney Day
Making announcements for World Kidney Day at radio stations such as Best FM, Alem FM and Tatlıses FM
Broadcasting our video clip often and regularly at Kral Tv during that week after a meeting with the channel
Distribution and sale of silicon bracelets at Galatasaray-Beşiktaş-Fenerbahçe stores
Distribution of cookies and flowers that are shaped as kidney to all our patients at the World Kidney Day
Magnificient Organs: Our Kidneys! Our kidneys filter and clean 200 liters of blood every day. DID YOU KNOW THAT...?
A healthy human body contains of 2 kidneys. They are replaced right behind our stomach, near the two sides of the backbone and below the bottom rib-bone. Each kidney has a size of a squeezed human fist.
Vital Filters
Approximately 5 liters of blood is circulating in our body. Our kidneys filter and clean this amount of blood 40 times every day. That makes 200 liters, which is equal to 200 bottles or an amount to fill 20 buckets!
Our kidneys helps the waste materials or excess water to be removed as urine.
Chemistry Masters
Our kidneys are vital and sophisticated in many ways.
They balance the levels of chemical materials in our body such as sodium, phosphorus and potassium. They produce important hormones which stimulates the bone marrow that builds red blood cells, and also hormones which regulates our blood pressure and strengthens our bones.
What is a chronicle kidney disease?
If our kidneys start losing their functions, then we can talk about chronicle kidney disease. This is an unobtrusive silent disease since we can't feel it. It affects more people that you can imagine. 1 of each 10 people has a damage in the kidneys. High blood pressure and diabetes are the main factors that causes chronicle kidney diseases.
The frequency of chronicle kidney diseases, which affects 500 millions of people already, is rising because of the increase Type 2 diabetes worldwide. If the chronicle kidney disease gets worse, it causes kidney failure. People with severe kidney failure need a kidney transplantation or they must be connected to a dialysis machine that cleans the blood 3 times a week in order to survive. Dialysis and transplantation are successful treatments but in many countries it is hard to find these possibilities, in the near future this treatment will not be received in the developed countries.
There is a bigger risk than kidney failure, and that is, these patients can catch cardiovascular diseases which is the most important and deadly disease in the world nowadays: People having chronicle kidney diseases has risk of death 10 times more than a healthy people, because of a heart attack or a stroke. Early diagnosis and protection:
Fotunately, chronicle kidney diseases can be discovered early and diagnosed easily.
The early signs of kidney problems can be determined by simple, economic urine and blood tests and measures of blood pressure. And the good news is; after we determine these problems, by taking the right medicine to control the blood pressure, by curing diabetes correctly, and by making small changes in our life style; then we can
· slow down, even stop the way to kidney failure.
· Prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Early diagnosis and treatment save lifes.
WHY "WORLD KIDNEY DAY"?
The purpose of "World Kidney Day" is; to increase the consciousness of society about our kidney's vital role and to spread the message that chronicle kidney disease is a highly-seen, harmful and curable disease.
"World Kidney Day" is celebrated every year in the second Tuesday of March, in more than 60 countries takes action with health officials and patient groups, to maintain and spread protection consciousness against chronicle kidney disease. These are united groups and if we don't take action now, more people lose their life because of kidney diseases; and if we settle the kidney subject to the agendas of government that determines and applies the health policies
SOME FACTORS AND NUMBERS
· Chronicle kidney disease is a global public health problem: More than 500 millions of people (10 % of adult population) worldwide, has a type of kidney damage.
· 90 % of this population with chronicle kidney disease is not diagnosed.
· Costs for the treatment of kidney failure are increasing rapidly: More than 1.5 million people survive by dialysis or transplantation worldwide; it is foreseen that this number will double in the next 10 years.
· Also it is predicted that the total cost for dialysis and transplantation will rise up to 1 trillion US dollars in the next 10 years. While this economical burden forces the health budgets of developed countries, it will be impossible for the less-developed countries to cover such an expense.
· Diabetes cause 3 times more risk in the development of kidney failure.
· In the year 2025, diabetes will be seen 70 % more and 300 millions of people will be effected. Developing countries will be effected a lot from this growth.
· World Health Organization plans to reduce the death ratio 2 % a year, in the next 10 years. This target will be reached with the early diagnosis and protection method of chronicle kidney disease.
WHAT CAN YOU DO? Check whether you are under risk or not!
World Kidney Day organization suggest scanning programmes for determining chronicle kidney diseases in all countries, especially the people who have high risk groups below;
· People with diabetes
· People with high blood pressure
· Obese people
· People who have family members with diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney diseases
If you are a part of any groups above, you need to control your kidneys with simple blood and urine tests. Please ask your doctor's advice for these tests.
Help us to increase society's conscious level
You can join "World Kidney Day" to help increase the awareness about kidney health and the importance of the kidney diseases. For example, you can participate in activities organised by a kidney association that is close to you.
