CHAPTER TWELVE

HEALTH

This chapter includes statistics on :

1- Medicaments factories .

2- Medical professions .

3- Health lnstitutions .

4- Hospitals' patients .

1- Number items manufactured locally,

number of factory and number of medicaments control

2- Medical professions; It includes data

On physicians, dentists, pharmacists, health technicians, legal midwives & nurses ( practicing and apprentices ),distributed by Mohafazat & physicians By Specialization .

3- Health institutions' Statistics :

It includes data , on:

a) Hospitals (state and private ) sanatoriums, beds, and average number of persons per bed distributed by Mohafazat.

b) Medical centers : it includes distribution of these centers by specialization .

and also movement of these centers by Mohafazat .

4- Hospitals patients : lt includes data

On patients of state & private hospitals distributed by Mohafazat & average length of stay (days ) per patient .

Moreover this chapter includes time series for all previous indicators, hospitals & sanatoriums by specialization.

Source of data : Ministry of Health.

Definitions:

The average length of stay : Total number of patients/ days during the year divided by number of patients.