Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 5 hospitals in Macao in 2016, providing a total of 1,591 in-patient beds, up by 97 year-on-year. Number of in-patients increased by 6.1% year-on-year to 58,000. The average hospital stay was 7.1 days, down by 0.3 day year-on-year. The occupancy rate of in-patient beds dropped by 4.6 percentage points to 72.0% due to an increase of in-patient beds and a decrease in the average hospital stay, marking the first year-on-year decline after three consecutive years of growth since 2013.
Hospital out-patient attendances increased by 0.4% year-on-year to 1,633,000, of which 280,000 (17.1%) were consultations in Internal Medicine, followed by Physiotherapy / Rehabilitation (216,000) and Chinese Medicine (180,000).
Emergency attendances increased slightly by 0.5% year-on-year to 477,000, with those in the Macao Peninsula (369,000) rising by 2.0%. On the other hand, emergency attendances in Taipa (109,000) dropped by 4.3%, marking the third consecutive year of decline since 2014. Meanwhile, dialysis treatments continued to increase, up by 9.9% to 91,000 cases.
There were 719 primary health care establishments (including public health centres and private clinics, etc.) in 2016, up by 11 year-on-year. Total number of consultations edged down by 0.2% to 3,975,000. Consultations in General Practice (1,186,000) increased by 6.6% year-on-year, while those in Chinese Medicine (1,129,000) fell by 0.6%. Consultations in Regular Services such as Adult Health Care, Child Health Care, etc., (847,000) rose by 0.5% year-on-year.
A total of 308,000 doses of vaccine were administered in hospitals and primary health care establishments in 2016, down by 0.8% year-on-year; vaccinations against Influenza totalled 99,000 doses.
Number of blood donations totalled 10,748 in 2016, up by 5.8%; first-time blood donations increased by 9.8% to 3,238.
In 2016, there were 1,726 doctors and 2,342 nurses, up by 3.1% and 2.8% respectively year-on-year; number of doctors and nurses per 1,000 population was 2.7 and 3.6 respectively, both up by 0.1 as compared with 2015.
