Facilities for treatment and patients on renal replacement therapy in South Africa. A report on the 1982 registration.

The 1982 annual registration has revealed that on 31 December 1981, a total of 1 198 sufferers of end-stage renal disease were being maintained by 22 South African treatment centres. Of these 729 were treated by dialysis (537 by in-centre haemodialysis, 47 by home haemodialysis, 28 by intermittent peritoneal dialysis and 117 by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis). Eight of the centres with transplantation programmes were maintaining an additional 469 patients with functioning grafts. The overall treatment rate was 46,9 per million population.