Activity 10.4 The table below illustrates the relevance of opportunity costs to the health sector by looking at the impact of increasing the number of patients receiving by-pass surgery compared to the number of patients needing dialysis - - i.e. the opportunity cost of doing by-pass surgeries in terms of doing dialysis for patients with kidney failure. For example, the opportunity cost of doing 5,000 by-pass surgeries is 50,000 dialysis treatments.

By-pass surgeries ('000s)	Dialysis treatment ('000s)	Opportunity cost ofdoing by-pass surgeriesin terms dialysis treatments foregone.
0	50	A
1	45	B
2	42	C
3	20	D
4	15	E
5	0	50,000