A pediatric kidney doctor at the Department of Child Health, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital,(KATH) Professor Sampson Antwi says his outfit receives 220 cases of kidney infections every year.

These cases, he said were prevalent in children who were between 4 and 10 years with some reaching their terminal stages at the time of visit.

this huge figure, Professor Antwi emphasized had been recorded at KATH for the past three years.

For the past three years, ten(10) deaths in these children had been recorded as a result of the disease, the expert disclosed.

Speaking to the Ghanaian Observer Newspaper at the University Primary School in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,(KNUST) where the School of Medical Sciences,(SMS) as part of their 40th anniversary celebration were conducting a free kidney screening for pupils at the school, the kidney doctor called for early urine tests.