According to the Chief Medical Director of Ondo State Kidney Care Centre, the latter dialysed about 3000 kidney failure patients in 2014 and 2015.
The centre was set up in 2014 following a study in part of Akure town South west Nigeria which showed a prevalence of 75 percent for high blood pressure and about 90 prevalence of obesity among the female population. The study  lso showed that about 90 percent of those examined had diabetes while 15 percent some  level of kidney malfunction

Today the centre attends to about 7-10 patients every day and about 210 a month.

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