Kidney Failure Patient Survived COVID-19, Is There Further Treatment?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Comorbid patient kidney failure is one of the biggest contributors to the death toll from COVID-19. These comorbid illnesses can worsen the symptoms of COVID-19, and even lead to death.

So, how is the follow-up care for patients with kidney failure who survive?survive) from COVID-19? A specialist in internal medicine consultant hypertension kidney, Zulkhair Ali said, routine treatment for kidney failure, such as hemodialysis (dialysis with a machine) can be continued.

“Patients (kidney failure) who Alhamdulillah saved from COVID-19, they are currently still undergoing hemodialysis or Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)-washing blood through the stomach, “explained Zulkhair answering a question Health Liputan6.com moment 2022 World Kidney Day Media Gathering on Thursday, March 17, 2022.

“The two therapies are not a problem. So, there are no special obstacles (after the COVID-19 treatment they underwent). In fact, according to our observations, not many experience long COVID-19 years or months.”

Kidney failure is also one of the four biggest diseases that consume 12 percent of the catastrophic funds for health services guaranteed by BPJS Health after cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

As many as 10 percent of the world’s population is affected Kidney illness Chronic (CKD) or those that occur as a result of early kidney failure symptoms that are not treated immediately and gradually worsen. Based on data from the Ministry of Health’s Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2018, the prevalence of CKD has doubled to 0.38 percent in Indonesia, from 0.2 percent since 2013.

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