Challenges to Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care in LMICs: An Opinion Piece

Divya Bajpai; Workagegnehu Hailu; Peace Bagasha; Onu Ugochi Chika; Ehab Hafiz; Elliot Koranteng Tannor; Eranga Wijewickrama; Robert Kalyesubula; Sabine Karam; Viviane Calice-Silva; Isabelle Ethier; Shaifali Sandal

doi:10.1177/20543581241246835

Challenges to Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care in LMICs: An Opinion Piece

Can J Kidney Health Dis. 2024 May 20:11:20543581241246835. doi: 10.1177/20543581241246835. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Divya Bajpai¹, Workagegnehu Hailu², Peace Bagasha³, Onu Ugochi Chika⁴, Ehab Hafiz⁵, Elliot Koranteng Tannor^{6

7}, Eranga Wijewickrama⁸, Robert Kalyesubula⁹, Sabine Karam^{10

11}, Viviane Calice-Silva¹², Isabelle Ethier^{13

14}, Shaifali Sandal^{15

16}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nephrology, King Edward (VII) Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Mumbai, India.
² Unit of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
³ Directorate of Internal Medicine, Mulago National Specialized Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.
⁵ Electron Microscopy Department, Clinical Laboratory Division, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁷ Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁸ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁹ Department of Physiology, Makerere University and Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁰ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
¹¹ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
¹² Research Department, Pro-rim Foundation and School of Medicine, UNIVILLE, Joinville, Brazil.
¹³ Division of Nephrology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
¹⁴ Health Innovation and Evaluation hub, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
¹⁵ Divisions of Nephrology and Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹⁶ MEDIC, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Keywords: barriers; climate change; environmentally sustainable kidney care; low- and middle-income countries; physician perspective.