World Kidney Day is a global awareness campaign aimed at raising awareness of the importance of our kidneys

2019 Theme: Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere

LEARNING WITH TIMES

The kidneys are a pair of bean-shaped organs on either side of your spine, below your ribs and behind your belly.The kidneys’ job is to filter your blood.

                                They remove wastes, control the body’s fluid balance, and keep the right levels of electrolytes. All of the blood in your body passes through them several times a day.Blood comes into the kidney, waste gets removed, and salt, water, and minerals are adjusted, if needed. The filtered blood goes back into the body. Waste gets turned into urine, which collects in the kidney’s pelvis — a funnel-shaped structure that drains down a tube called the ureter to the bladder.Each kidney has around a million tiny filters called nephrons.