End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is more serious in Nigeria than HIV/AIDS"

"End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is more serious in Nigeria than HIV/AIDs"

End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is more serious in Nigeria than HIV/AIDS. There is hardly any family in Nigeria that has not felt the trauma of the ailment or outright death by ESRD. Whereas ESRD is like HIV/AIDS, an impossible, if not terminal condition, proper diagnosis is still poor and treatment is very expensive and futile for the poor who usually cannot afford the cost of kidney transplantation. For instance, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has said that to treat ESRD, it will take a "moderate rate" of not more than N2 million!

There is hardly any major hospital in Nigeria today that does not have ESRD patients pining away, perhaps wishing for death.

From The Nation, Nigerian Independent daily