On 4th March 2022, a webinar was conducted on the topic “Drug Holiday and Kidney Diseases” in collaboration with Care For Your Kidneys Foundation. This session was conducted as a part of an awareness programme to prevent kidney disease.
Dr. Hansika Parwani, Project Manager MFJCF, welcomed the audience and the key speaker, Dr. Srinayan Katari to the webinar and gave a brief explanation about drug holiday and how it can affect the kidneys.
Dr. Srinayan Katari, Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Hyderabad, Telangana, gave a presentation on the topic Drug Holiday and Kidney Diseases.
He began by explaining what is a drug holiday and what are some of the reasons to take a drug holiday. He then talked about the importance of Drug Holiday in patients at risk of Acute Kidney Injuries (AKIs). He also spoke in depth about Drug Holidays in patient suffering from CKDs and Renal Transplant patients.
He concluded the session by stressing about the fact that patients do go on unplanned drug holidays which results in adverse health outcome, so proper counselling of patients while prescribing medications is required. Drug holidays should be planned by one’s physician to avoid negative health outcome.
Few noteworthy questions from the audience include:
Dr. Srinayan answered all the questions satisfactorily.
The webinar had around 25 live participants, around 151 views, reach was around 733 with 53 engagement. MOHAN Foundation thanks Care For Your Kidneys, Dr. Srinayan Katari and all the participants for supporting and attending the webinar.
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