Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 5 hospitals in Macao in 2017, providing a total of 1,596 in-patient beds, up by 5 year-on-year. Number of in-patients rose by 1.8% year-on-year to 59,000, with an average hospital stay of 7.0 days, down by 0.1 day. Owing to a decrease in the average hospital stay of in-patients and an increase in the number of in-patient beds, the occupancy rate of in-patient beds dropped by 1.2 percentage points to 70.8%, representing the second consecutive year of decline.
Hospital out-patient attendances increased by 4.0% year-on-year to 1,698,000, of which consultations in Internal Medicine (276,000) accounted for 16.3%, followed by those in Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation (234,000) and General Surgery (189,000), constituting 13.8% and 11.1% respectively.
Emergency attendances decreased by 0.9% year-on-year to 473,000. Emergency attendances in the Macao Peninsula (369,000) rose by 0.2%; meanwhile, those in Taipa (104,000) dropped by 4.5%, the fourth consecutive year of decline since 2014. Moreover, cases of dialysis treatments increased for eight years in a row, growing by 9.4% year-on-year to 100,000.
There were 702 primary health care establishments (including public health centres, private clinics, etc.) in 2017, down by 17 year-on-year. Total number of consultations rose by 0.9% to 4,012,000. Consultations in General Practice decreased by 1.8% year-on-year to 1,165,000, accounting for 29.0% of the total, followed by those in Chinese Medicine (1,141,000) and Stomatology/Odontology (254,000), taking up 28.4% and 6.3% respectively.
A total of 365,000 doses of vaccine were administered in hospitals and primary health care establishments in 2017, up by 18.6% year-on-year; vaccinations against Influenza totalled 109,000 doses.
Number of blood donations totalled 14,288 in 2017, up slightly by 1.1% year-on-year. A total of 10,391 persons donated blood in 2017, down by 3.3% year-on-year, with first-time blood donors decreasing by 8.9% to 2,951.
According to the administrative information from the Health Bureau, there were 1,730 doctors and 2,397 nurses in 2017, up by 0.2% and 2.3% respectively year-on-year; number of doctors and nurses per 1,000 population was 2.6 and 3.7 respectively.