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KIDNEY UPDATES 6
2025 NEWS AND EVENTS
INVITATION: MEGA HEALTH DAY 2025 WORLD KIDNEY DAY – ZOURNE MONDIAL LERIN 2025 KIDNEY UPDATES IN 2025 THE RENAL ASSOCIATION AT THE WCN’25INVITATION: MEGA HEALTH DAY 2025
You’re invited to a Mega Health Day—a full-day medical awareness event dedicated to your well-being!
Date: Sunday, 6th April 2025
Venue: Lady Sushil Gymnasium, Triolet
Time: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WORLD KIDNEY DAY – ZOURNE MONDIAL LERIN 2025
Discover and participate in our many activities for World Kidney Day 2025.
- We are calling on everyone to sign this petition from the International Society of Nephrology (ISN)
No matter who you are—whether you simply believe in a healthier future or kidney disease has touched your life directly—this is your chance to take a stand! With your signature, we can urge global leaders to support the proposed World Health Organization Resolution to make kidney health a priority now. Click the picture below!
- We are campaigning that the WHO makes kidney health a priority (it’s not at the moment)
The Renal Association is campaigning that Mauritius supports the proposed the proposed World Health Organization Resolution to make kidney health a priority at the 78th World Health Assembly in May 2025. This initiative calls for action to:
- Address global disparities in access to kidney care
- Raise awareness of kidney health
- Mitigate environmental factors impacting kidney health
- Prioritize kidney diseases in a broader non-communicable disease agenda to strengthen prevention and holistic care strategies
- Were you present for our screening event for kidney disease?
About 150 people got a free screening for chronic kidney disease. If you missed it, you can check the pictures below!
- Discover the ‘Eight Golden Rules’ of kidney health in Kreol Morisien.
- Radio and TV programmes by our members
- “Are your kidneys healthy” quiz?
Have you tried the International Society of Nephrology quiz: ‘Are your kidneys healthy?’ A Kreol Morisien version is coming later this month to be added to 30 language versions already present!
KIDNEY UPDATES IN 2025
THE RENAL ASSOCIATION AT THE WCN’25
The Renal Association was represented by Dr D Ip Min Wan, Dr O Bheekharry and Dr M Rughooputh at the World Congress of Nephrology in New Delhi on 6-9 February 2025. They were involved in several important events.
The Renal Association was represented by Dr D Ip Min Wan, Dr O Bheekharry and Dr M Rughooputh at the World Congress of Nephrology in New Delhi on 6-9 February 2025. They were involved in several important events.
The poster designed by Dr D Ip for the stand of the RA at the Global Kidney Village at WCN’25. Flying the flag for Mauritius!
Dr D Ip representing Mauritius and the RA at the Affiliated Societies Gathering of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) at the WCN’25 in New Delhi. The RA has been a collective-member society member of the ISN since November 2020.
Gathering of the Sister Renal Centres Programme at WCN’25 with Dr R Shroff (Great Ormond Street Hospital) chairing. Dr D Ip, as an ISN member, has made use of the Sister Renal Centre of the ISN, to team up with Dr J Baharani of the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (UK) to improve kidney patient care and especially peritoneal dialysis in Mauritius.
Dr D Ip as one of the two Mauritian members of ISN Africa Regional Board, member of African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN) attended the meeting of the ISN Africa Regional Board which was already affected by the outgoing ISN President Pr Masaomi Nangaku, incoming ISN President Pr Marcello Tonelli and the AFRAN President Prof Mohammed Hany Hafez.
The signing of the agreement between ISN and AFRAN to collaborate on training of new nephrologists in Africa at the the meeting of the ISN Africa Regional Board at WCN’25.
Meeting of the the ISN Sharing Expertise to Support the set-up of Renal Registries (SharE-RR) initiative which develops resources to help establish or develop renal registries in emerging countries including a toolkit introduced in 2024. Efforts have been made since 2020 to set a renal registry in Mauritius but obstacles remain.
Dr D Ip and Dr O Bheekharry next to the poster “IMPACT OF HIGH DIABETES MELLITUS PREVALENCE
KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN MAURITIUS
D lp Min Wan, K Fagoonee, P Ancharaz, O Bheekharry, AS Fedally, J Gopall, Y Gendoo, N Boodhram, A Bukhory, V Jhurree” presented at the WCN’25.
This poster is the result of the multidisciplinary team at the Transplant Unit at Victoria Hospital and at all the Haemodialysis Units in all the public hospitals in Mauritius. It is the first clinical data on transplant workup from Mauritius and it has been published in Kidney International Reports in February 2025.
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