title: Maintenance haemodialysis and renal transplantation facilities in South Africa-July 1974.
abstract: A survey of facilities available in South Africa for patients suffering from chronic renal failure was made in July 1974. This showed that 14 maintenance haemodialysis centres had a total of 59 dialysing stations with a capacity for treating 154 patients. Five centres had established programmes for renal transplantation. The total number of renal failure survivors on treatment included 129 patients on maintenance dialysis and 177 with grafts. This represents a 31% increase in the number of patients on treatment since a similar survey was made in July 1973.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005006:Ethnicity; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013019:South Africa; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous