The number of stays between January and August totaled 17,086, a decrease of 15% from last year, but the number of patients who need to be admitted is also down by 10%. The number of stays is getting shorter, and the average number of stays in all wards is now 4.5 days, compared to 4.7 last year.

Most of the patients are admitted due to emergency, which accounts for approximately 77.6% of the total admittance.

On average, five to six patients are admitted at any given time, who are already treated and are waiting for rehabilitation or placement in a nursing home.

The pharmaceutical ward has 90% occupancy and the surgical ward has over 78% over this given time. The psychiatric ward has 60% occupancy but only half of the wards were open in August due to construction work in the ward. The occupancy is lower in all wards and the reason is the same as above that discharges occur earlier than before and the occupancy is better.

Almost 8,250 people have received services in the outpatient ward, 1,563 of whom have received cancer medication, compared to 1,454 medications during the same period last year, and there is a continuous increase in these services.

In the emergency room and outpatient ward of the emergency room, the number of communications is the same as in the previous year or 12.103 compared to 12.164 same time last year (see table of emergency room visits from January to July each year).

The waiting time for a doctor in the emergency room is now about 46 minutes, whereas our criteria is about 40 minutes waiting for a doctor.

The number of surgeries in January to August was 1,545, which is slightly less than in the year before when the number was 1,670. Nearly 34% of the operations were emergency and artificial joint operations, 191 compared to 206 artificial joint operations last year.

The number of medical imaging examinations (without mammograms) was 26,885, making an average of about 110 studies per day, which is comparable to the previous examinations.

Research in the clinical laboratory has decreased slightly but the number of research in the physiology department is comparable to the past few years.

This year, 264 children were born, compared to 270 children at the same time last year.

There is a significant decrease in arrivals and admissions of non-insured persons compared to the same period last year. The emergency room has treated 515 non-insured persons and 76 have been admitted, whereas in the previous year 93 individuals had been admitted and about 600 individuals had sought in the emergency room.