Leading doctors and campaigners all across the world today called for action to address acute kidney injury (AKI), as new estimates show that death rates from AKI, are over 100 times than those caused by MRSA, one of the best known super bugs.
Figures compiled by the Kidney Alliance for World Kidney Day, estimate that 2011/12, death rates from AKI were between 62,000 and 210,000 compared to MRSA, which caused 364 deaths in 2011, a number which had fallen by a quarter from the previous year.
The Premier and Minister of Health and Human Services Honourable Dr. Rufus Ewing, this morning brought greetings on the occasion of World Kidney Day 2013 under the theme: Acute Kidney Injury – “Stop Kidney Attack!”
