KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 — Studies show that 15 per cent of Malaysians suffer from chronic kidney disease at various levels, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said the most worrying factor was that most of the patients were unaware that they had the disease.
“This is because these patients do not have any symptoms at the early stage, and when a patient begins showing symptoms, often they are already at a more serious level,” he said when officiating the website ‘www.mybuahpinggang.com’ in an online event here, today.
However, he did not reveal further details about the study.
Meanwhile, he hoped that with the launch of the website and the ‘MYbuahpinggang’ Facebook page, public awareness about the disease would improve, and subsequently reduce the incidence of kidney failure in the country. — Bernama