Organizing Committee Member
Miss Akinremi Omotayo
Founder
Omotayo Kidney Care Foundation
Nigeria
Biography
Omotayo Akinremi, a young Nigerian lady who resides in Nigeria, is the founder of Omotayo Kidney Care Foundation, an NGO outfit that takes health screening focused on hypertension, diabetes and kidney diseases to the community, majority of whom don’t have access to these important health care services. . The first child in a family of four and born in 1989, she is a Registered Nurse and also obtained Nephrology Nurse certificate from the School of Nephrology Nursing, National hospital, Abuja in 2014. In may year 2017, she was appointed as the head of the department (HOD) of dialysis unit at Garki Hospital Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. Where she has had the opportunity of interacting with more renal patients at the immediate environs, and in some other hospitals in Nigeria through the heads of the renal units monthly meetings thus enabling her to know the challenges attending care of patients and treatments of kidney diseases across different population groups. She has attended many conferences on nephrology, contributing and learning more about the best practices in the care and treatment of people living with kidney diseases.
Research Area
Raising awareness on chronic kidney disease Educating the public on the importance, and the care of the kidneys with aim of providing primary prevention