The Enormity of Chronic Kidney Disease in Nigeria: The Situation in a Teaching Hospital in South-East Nigeria

Table 3

(a) Duration of dialysis by number of sessions of dialysis.

Duration (months)	Sessions of haemodialysis
	1–5	6–10	11–49	$\ge$50	Total (%)
$<$1	694	18	3	0	715 (78.7)
1–3	12	68	36	0	116 (12.8)
3–6	0	1	36	0	37 (4.1)
6–9	1	0	19	1	21 (2.3)
9–12	0	0	5	0	5 (0.5)
12–24	0	0	4	5	9 (1.0)
$>$24	0	0	1	4	5 (0.5)
Total	707 (77.9)	87 (9.6)	104 (11.4)	10 (1.1)	908 (100)

(b) Reasons for withdrawal.

Reasons	%
Financial	91.5
Distance from dialysis facility	0.8
Death	3.7
Referred out*	1.2
Withdrawal of consent	0.1
Others	2.7

${}^{*}$Others referred out for kidney transplantation.