The Statistics and Census Service released the results of the 2006 Health Care Survey, which covered three hospitals providing hospital care services, 434 private clinics and health care centres providing primary health care services, as well as 214 establishments providing Chinese medicine and therapy services in Macao. In 2006, there were 2,778 persons engaged in hospitals, comprising 946 nurses and 490 doctors. The hospitals provided 980 in-patient hospital beds, with the occupancy rate increased slightly by 0.5 percentage point over 2005 to 76.4%. A total of 4,044 deliveries and 12,059 surgical operations were carried out during the year. Among the 1,577 persons engaged in primary health care services, 606 were doctors and 347 were nurses. Number of medical consultations administered totalled 2,280,000, up by 10.0% over 2005. In addition, 97.0% of the 434 establishments providing primary health care were operated by the private sector and the majority (369) were private clinics. With respect to the entire health care system, the ratio of residents to doctor (excluding dentists) was 447:1 and the ratio of residents to nurse was 424:1. In 2006, the number of blood donors registered an increase of 1.4% over 2005 to 9,122; the median age of the blood donors was 24.4. Meanwhile, the Blood Donation Centre provided 16,544 units of blood and blood components to the hospitals. Within the 503 persons engaged in Chinese medicine and therapy services in 2006, there were 119 doctors of Chinese medicine, 166 Chinese herbalists, and 22 masseurs, acupuncturists and therapists, providing approximately 669,000 consultations in Chinese medicine and therapy services.
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