Kidney Awareness Monitoring & Prevention Society (KAMPS) is a fast growing non-government kidney care organization in Bangladesh. KAMPS its journey in 2005 at the Hatibandha village of Shakhipur Thana in Tangail. The organization was created with the philanthropic and social welfare oriented thinking of Professor M A Samad. He established a center named ‘Talim Ghar’ at his own village home at Hatibandha from where various social welfare activities started with limited dimension. Initially, it started providing primary health care services among the poor, needy and vulnerable people in the community from ‘Talim Ghar’ since 2005. As a veteran Nephrologist of the country, Professor Samad wanted to contribute in controlling the alarming rise of Kidney disease across the country, he understood that only the prevention is the way to control this disease and KAMPS had been established mainly to emphasize screening for detecting the disease at the primary stage so that the patients may avoid criticality. And others are guided to follow some particular style in their lives to stay aloof from kidney disease for life long. KAMPS implemented various activities for dissemination of awareness messages among the people across the country almost round the year. The activities include holding roundtable discussion, meeting, seminar, symposium, rally, distributing poster, leaflet, handbill, festoons, and banners containing preventive messages for kidney diseases. KAMPS has widened its network by setting up its branches in Tangail, Chandpur, Madaripur, Sakhipur and Nawabganj. At the same time, in running awareness program KAMPS has set up dialysis centers in Dhaka, Tangail, Chandpur, Madaripur, Sakhipur and Nawabganj where the kidney patients get expected solutions including dialysis care at a very reasonable cost. The programs of KAMPS are specially targeted to ensure its support to establish rights of the women, adolescent girls and children to remove social injustice and bring a society free from discrimination. The ground breaking awareness campaign of KAMPS is not limited to the boundary in Bangladesh, rather it is working in Spain, London, Birmingham in UK and in Canada especially in the expatriate Bengali and Asian community.
