Diet plan can save kidney patients, say PGI doctors

Chandigarh: The PGI department of dietetics and the local chapter of the Nutrition Society of India organised a continuing nutrition education programme on the prevention and management of kidney diseases, at the elite medical institute here on Monday. Dean (academics) Rajesh Kumar inaugurated the event.

The doctors were concerned that diabetes and hypertension were giving chronic kidney disease (CKD) to an increasing section of population. Doctors H S Kohli and A K Mandal talked about the co-morbidities related to CKD and Dr Mukut Minz about renal replacement therapy and the preventive strategies to manage kidney stones. Experts described the importance of a meticulous diet plan to a kidney-disease patient.

The 300-odd delegates included doctors, dieticians, nutritionists, and students of dietetics from the Tricity, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Delhi. PGI chief dietician Sunita Malhotra and her team had joined Nutrition Society of India convener Dr S V Rana in organising the event.