Current Affairs - Important Days - Discussion

World Kidney Day is celebrated annually throughout the world on the second Thursday of March. This year it met with the International Women's Day and falls on March 8. World Kidney Day is a global awareness campaign aimed at raising awareness of the importance of our kidneys and how it's related to our overall health. The objective of the day is to not just spread awareness about kidney diseases and its cure, but also spread how kidney diseases can be prevented. The theme of World Kidney Day 2018 is "Kidneys And Women's Health: Include, Value, Empower". The celebration was initiated by the joint committee of "International Society of Nephrology and International Federation of Kidney Foundations" and was first observed by 66 countries in 2006.