The Statistical Service
announces that the annual report “Health and Hospital Statistics” for the year
2011 is now available.
The report provides
statistical information relating to the medical services of the public sector.
It provides, inter alia, data on in-patients, surgical operations, out-patient
attendances, bed-occupancy rates, information on medical, nursing and
paramedical personnel, various health indicators etc.
The main developments
recorded in 2011, compared to 2010, are:
- During 2011 75.441 patients were admitted for treatment and discharged from the general hospitals, recording an increase of 0,6% over the previous year.
- The disease category “Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes” has the highest share, 8,1%, of in-patients in general hospitals.
- 29.663 surgical operations performed on in-patients and out-patients recorded a decrease of 3,1% over the previous year.
- Operations on the general surgery accounted for 28,1% of all operations performed on in-patients and out-patients.
- Out-patients attendances increased by 3,9% over the previous year, reaching 1.988.692, of which 52,5% represented attendances at rural hospitals and health centers.
- The highest ratios of out-patient visits have been observed for the specialties of General Medicine, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics and Gynaecology-Obstetrics.
- A total of 411.770 patients visited the Casualty Departments of the general hospitals, recording a decrease of 2,7% over the previous year.
- Total expenditure on health services during 2011 is estimated at €1.307,6 mn, of which €608,1 mn represent expenditure of the public sector and €699,5 mn of the private sector. The share of expenditure on health as a percentage to G.D.P increased from 7,0 % in 2009 to 7,1% in 2010 and 7,3% in 2011.
The report can be
downloaded free of charge from the website of the Statistical Service under the
section Publications. The paper
publication will be available soon from the Government Printing Office, in
Lefkosia, at the price of €13,50.
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27/1/2014
