• Kidney international · Sep 2006

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    Dialysis rationing in South Africa: a global message.

    • J H Dirks and N W Levin.
    • Massey College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. john.dirks@utoronto.ca
    • Kidney Int. 2006 Sep 1;70(6):982-4.

    AbstractDialysis rationing resulting from limited facilities and health-care personnel in low- and middle-income countries such as South Africa must be addressed on several fronts. Prevention of kidney disease is an essential long-term approach, but in the short term, it is necessary to increase access to dialysis and transplantation, and to seek ways to limit the 'brain drain' to the developed world.

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