Number of chronic renal failure patients more than doubled in 8 years

Due to multiplying senior population and diets high in salt, the number of patients suffering chronic renal failure (CRF) has more than doubled between 2001 to 2008, showed a report released by the National Health Insurance Corporation.

According to the report, CRF patients numbered 46,000 in 2001. In 2006 the figure had climbed to 92,000. The number of elderly patient suffering such disease...