Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - The number of patients who were treated as inpatients in a Hessian hospital in 2021 was well below the pre-corona level of 2019. Overall, the 151 clinics in the state registered 1.19 million patients last year - 13 percent fewer than in the year before the pandemic began, as the State Statistical Office announced on Thursday in Wiesbaden. Compared to 2020, the number of cases increased slightly by 1.2 percent.
According to the information, the annual average bed occupancy in 2021 was 69.2 percent. With 369,900 cases (31.0 percent), most of the patients were on the internal medicine wards. A further 208,700 cases were recorded in general surgery (17.5 percent), followed by gynecology and obstetrics (110,100 cases/9.2 percent).
With an average of 7.4 days, a hospital stay lasted only slightly longer in 2021 than in 2020 (7.3 days). At the end of last year, 84,700 men and women were employed directly in Hessian hospitals. That was 2.5 percent more than at the end of 2020, as the state office announced.
