Fürth (dpa/lby) - Around 2.5 million patients were treated as inpatients in Bavaria's hospitals in 2021. That is 0.7 percent less than in the previous year, as the Bavarian State Office for Statistics announced on Friday. On average, each patient was hospitalized for seven days. The length of stay is thus significantly shorter than in the early 2000s. The figures relate only to inpatient treatment, i.e. excluding day clinics and outpatient hospital treatment, for example.
With regard to the number of beds, more treatments would have been possible. According to the statistical office, bed occupancy was 67.3 percent (previous year 66.4 percent) and thus ten percentage points less than in 2019. 72.6 percent of the intensive care beds were used (69.9 percent in the previous year). The statistics office counted 351 hospitals with over 75,000 beds for the Free State last year, of which 3843 were intensive care beds.
