Kidney Transplant Cost in Bangladesh

According to a statistics of Bangladesh, the country has about 20 million of patients have different levels of kidney disease, most of the patients can not receive effective treatment.


A seminar, which called “chronic renal disease: the condition of Bangladesh”, recently held in the Bangladesh capital, dhaka. The statistics published in the seminar said that there are 40 thousand people die of kidney disease in Bangladesh every year. Experts had pointed out that the number of doctor is severely lacking in Bangladesh, every 250000 people share one kidney disease doctor on average, however, the standard doctor-patient proportion is every 50000 people share one doctor. Besides, about 90% of patients can not get proper treatment because they do not have the capabilities to bear the huge cost of dialysis and kidney transplant. The inhabitants there live by 2 dollars per day, but a healthy kidney will cost them 1400 dollars.
“In Bangladesh, only 1% of people who are very wealthy have a chance to receive organ transplantation. Most of the ESRD patients have no choice but die in silence, they don’t even know they can make their life longer by organ transplantation.”said Monir Moniruzzaman, a anthropologist in Michigan State University.

The cost of a kidney are so high that civilian unable to afford it, is there any other cheaper method to treat kidney disease? The answer is yes! Combined therapy of Chinese and Western medicine can alleviate the symptoms of ESRD and uremia, improve patients’ kidney function gradually, then according to specific conditions, further treatment will be applied. More details please refer to “5C International Renal Health Restoring

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