Number of hospital admissions in Slovakia in 2021 at two-decade low – GOOD MORNING SLOVAKIA

In 2021, the number of hospital admissions was the lowest in 20 years. Statistics from the National Health Information Center (NCZI) say last year state health facilities recorded a total of 942,376 hospitalizations, with an average stay of 6.5 days. But the number of deaths of hospitalized patients has instead increased compared to 2020 by 35.7% to 42,411, a number that also includes patients who died from COVID-19.

The most common reasons for hospitalization were cardiovascular diseases (14.6%), tumors (10.2%) and respiratory diseases (9.8%), for people who were more than 55 and 74 years old (34.1% of the total). The highest number of hospitalizations in 2021 was recorded in the Bratislava region, followed by the Trnava region.

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