MADALA J / SACHS J approximately R1 000 per treatment and required two or three treatments per week but could not continue with this treatment when his funds ran out and he found himself owing the private clinic approximately R25 000. [48] Private hospitals and clinics which offer haemodialysis programmes play an important role in cases such as the present. They do afford end-stage renal failure patients with haemodialysis treatment where the public sector cannot. The private sector criteria for acceptance onto a dialysis programme are not as strict, but naturally the patient must have the funds in order to sustain treatment. It seems to me that it would alleviate the problem of the public sector if more patients were given by the private sector alternative possible treatment of providing catheters and bags which go with CAPD. The appellant in this case alleges that he was never advised about this option. If this were so, it would, in my view, be a serious indictment for the private sector which offers private renal dialysis programmes. However, the private sector is not before us and we cannot condemn it without hearing it. [49] Perhaps a solution might be to embark upon a massive education campaign to inform the citizens generally about the causes of renal failure, hypertension and diabetes and the diet which persons afflicted by renal failure could resort to in order to prolong their life expectancy. 27