OBSERVATIONS ON RENAL REPLACEMENT SERVICES IN RUSSIA, BYELARUS AND LITHUANIA

This report describes the current financial, technical and medical sta tus of nephrology, dialysis and renal transplant services in these cou ntries with the hope of helping our colleagues there to upgrade their standards of care. The general impression is that physicians as well a s administrators in these countries are eager to improve conditions of patient care despite a disastrous economical climate. Our view is tha t we can help by providing literature, textbooks, journals, travel fun ds, by offering visiting fellowships to individual physicians, and by forming partnerships between nephrology centres.