The Kidney Warriors II

The Kidney Warriors Book 2 is a treatise on the kidney patients lives, their health realities and coming together of many organizations that works to bring stability to this very disturbed population.

In order to weave the true disease outcomes the book delves into reasons why the disease is growing rampantly, shows gaps in healthcare delivery and governments’ plans to address early intervention through management of high risk conditions that drives this costly disease that overturns many a household.

Sections on aspects of Patient Advocacy shows the impending need to formulate strong policies to address cause, understand delayed detection and giving chronic kidney disease a more deserving recognition. The scope extends to finding financial relief through well planned strategies by government through CSR programmes.

Understanding the graveness of CKD! A section that will resonate with many. That CKD will soon be the 5th NCD causing death, is worrying. We are preparing early to meet the eventuality with preventive work. General public can gain from the information in safeguarding their health and protecting their vital organ – the kidneys. The book will also be an eye-opener for those in power to consider the needs of kidney patients when they implement policies. The chapters have been organized into different sections based on the topics, and written in language with minimal use of medical jargon that the general reader can comprehend.

Increasing awareness of the disease through stories! This section is a testimony on endurance of rigours of dialysis, navigating through a transplant wide eyed and happy and caregivers who share equal burden. It will benefit patient as the inspiring stories will show their individual battles are insignificant in comparison.

Key to health management is always knowledge. The medical resource section is need based with topics that bother patients through their dialysis days or posttransplant. Unfortunately, this lifelong disease challenges people so information comes with the right dosage of scientific information shared simplistically.