 Hello friends, my name is Dr. Amol Mahaldar and I am a nephrologist and transplant physician at Manipal Hospital Goa. I look after patients who have kidney disease and require dialysis or kidney transplant. Today kidney disease is increased so much that almost 1 in every 10 adults are estimated to have some or the other form of kidney ailment. The total number of kidney patients in the world has touched the all time high of 850 million. This is one of the reasons why every year on 2nd Thursday of the March we celebrate a world kidney day. Today my friends is the world kidney day and the theme for this year is living well with kidney disease. It is a patient centered approach where we are trying to encourage patients to live their life fullest as much as possible despite having kidney disease because with medicines proper treatment even dialysis or transplant can rehabilitate these patients to almost full activity. It is more important today to speak about preventing kidney disease because the increasing burden of kidney disease is a terrible pain for the family and the society as a whole. More than half of kidney patients are due to diabetes and I would appeal to all people who have diabetes to try and get their kidney screen. It is a very simple test where the urine is tested for protein loss and the blood is tested for estimating serum creatinine which gives us an estimate of kidney function. This test should be done in every diabetic patients every 6 months to know well in advance if they are having kidney disease. Thank you.