2022 Edition 12 • Public hospitals or hospitals in public-private partnerships continued to be the main providers of health services, ensuring: » 83.2% of emergency service attendances (82.7% in 2019); » 74.9% of admissions (-14.3% than in 2019); » 69.6% of surgeries in the operating room (-17.7% than in 2019); » 65.1% of medical appointments (-9.3% than in 2019); • The hospital activity was strongly affected by the pandemic context, seen through the unprecedented falls in the number of assistance acts provided: » The number of hospitalisations and hospitalisation days, 987.2 thousand and 9.4 million respectively, were the lowest values registered in the series that began in 19991; » The nearly 5.7 million attendances at emergency services represented a decrease of 2.4 million compared to the previous year, the lowest figure recorded in the period 1999 to 2020; This was the hospital service with the sharpest fall in activity: 29.6% fewer attendances than in the previous year; » 858.1 thousand surgeries were performed in the operating room, the lowest number since 2008 and corresponded to a reduction of 176.0 thousand surgeries of this nature (-17.0%) compared to the previous year; The decreases were 17.7% in public sector hospitals and 15.4% in private sector hospitals; » Around 18.4 million medical appointments were carried out in external appointment units in Portuguese hospitals, 2.7 million less (-12.7%) than in the previous year; The drop in this activity was more expressive in private hospitals, with a decrease of 1.4 million appointments and 18.3% compared to 2019. In public sector hospitals, 1.2 million fewer medical appointments were performed, representing a decrease of 9.3%; Hospital inpatient beds by institutional nature, Portugal, 1999-2020 1 The Portuguese Central Health System Administration confirmed that COVID-19 activity in 2020 did not compensate for all other inpatient activity that was cancelled or postponed. Emergency service attendances by institutional nature, Portugal, 1999-2020 » 162.6 million complementary diagnostic and/or therapeutic acts or acts intended to provide curative care after diagnosis and therapeutic prescription were performed, 19.6 million less than the previous year; Of this negative balance, 14.3million concern public sector hospitals (-9.2% compared to 2019) and 5.3million referred to private hospitals (-20.6% compared to 2019); 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Million Total Public or public-private partnership hospital Private hospital 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Million Total Public or public-private partnership hospital Private hospital More information is available at: World health day 6 April 2022
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