A consultant surgeon and Chief Executive Officer of Wellington Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Abuja, Dr. Ugochukwu Charles Ugwuanyi, has raised alarm that over 9,000 new cases of end-stage kidney failure are diagnosed in Nigeria every month. He said the figure is rising and assuming epidemic proportions. He listed hypertension and diabetes as leading causes of kidney failure in young people. Ugwuanyi spoke to journalists on the hospital's 15 years of operations in Nigeria.
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