2. To help support and help treat people with kidney problems
Prevent kidney disease from spreading
Increase the publics education on kidney disease
3. It all began in the year 1950,November 15 when Ada Debold and her spouse
organised the first meeting of the committee for Nephrosis research in a desperate
effort to save their dying child from the deadly disease.Although she knew that the
disease was incurable,she still did everything in her power to try to cure the fatal
disease,thus forming the first National Nephrosis Foundation.However her son still
passed away at the tender age of 4. Her research has managed to allow doctors
and researches to understand more,eventually leading to a cure.
4. NKF Impact
NFK managed to find a way in which to treat Kidney Failure with dialysis,making
Kidney failure no longer a deadly disease.Helping Patient through educating about
kidney failure.NFK developed the first widely accepted clinical practice guidelines
in nephrology.
5. Credits to the respective Url
https://www.kidney.org/about/history