Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 4 hospitals in Macao, having 1,354 in-patient beds, an increase of 132 beds year-on-year; number of in-patient admissions totalled 48,000, rose by 9.6%, bringing the occupancy rate of in-patient beds to 69.6%. A total of 1,371,000 out-patient consultations and 430,000 emergency treatments were carried out in hospitals, up by 4.6% and 8.0% year-on-year respectively. Number of emergency treatments administered in Taipa surged notably by 46.5% to 110,000. Meanwhile, primary health care establishments comprising health centres and private clinics totalled 675 establishments, providing 3,404,000 consultations, up by 1.8% year-on-year, among which consultations in Chinese medicine and therapy services and General Practice reached 1,135,000 and 1,058,000 respectively. For the whole year of 2012, 254,000 vaccinations were administered in health care establishments; vaccinations against Influenza (84,000) shared 33.1% of the total. There were 1,482 licensed doctors and 1,751 nurses at the end of 2012; number of doctors and nurses per 1,000 population stood at 2.5 and 3.0 respectively, similar to 2011.
