Worrying trend: How kidney diseases are weighing down on the youth

Study shows up to 30 per cent of dialysis patients were aged between 10 and 30 years [Courtesy]

Four years ago, Joyce Njeri had her lifetime dream within reach with a flourishing business in Nairobi and a happy family. Then life took a brutal turn. In November 2014, Njeri, then 32, delivered safely at Kenyatta National Hospital.

“The delivery went well but it was followed by excessive bleeding which kept me at the hospital for one and a half months,” Njeri told the Standard.