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The numbers of inpatients in all surgical (specialty) wards are shown in Table 6. Like surgical outpatient
attendees, there was an overall increment in admission in 2017 as compared to 2016.

Table 6
Number of Beds, Inpatient and Bed Occupancy Rate of Surgical (Specialty) Ward, 2016 and 2017

% +/- Inpatient Bed Occupation
Discipline No. of Beds No. of Inpatients Difference Rate
Between
2016 2017 2016 2017 2016/2017 2016 2017
General Surgery 3,567 3,591 220,598 197,160 -11.8 60.29 54.02
Orthopaedic 3,221 3,301 141,411 130,566 - 8.3 67.15 65.10
Opthalmology 628 620 40,162 35,365 - 13.5 44.41 41.21
Otorhinolaryngology 423 426 23,862 23,405 - 1.9 53.38 52.10
Urology 252 317 16,454 13,199 - 23.5 63.06 49.53
Neurosurgery 298 439 12,000 13,637 12.0 70.28 66.00
Cardiothoracic 137 227 2,786 3,793 26.5 51.16 57.75
Plastic Surgery 121 149 3,951 4,429 10.7 51.33 47.65
Hand & Microsurgery 18 18 117 NA - 12.83 -
Total 8,734 9,088 461,341
Source: Health Informatics Centre, MoH

The core activity of all the surgical specialties were operations performed as shown in Table 7 below.
Included in the table are operations by subspecialties which were previously not available, as in asterisk.
Overall, there was an increase in number of total operation performed in 2017 as compared to 2016.

Table 7
Number of Elective and Emergency Operation Performed, 2016 and 2017
No. of Operation Performed
Disciplines 2016 2017
Elective Emergency Total Elective Emergency Total
General Surgery 79,568 226,815 306,383 62,419 172,419 235,055
Orthopedic 88,684 201,277 289,961 72,660 138,639 211,299
Ophthalmology 97,244 8,103 105,347 63,201 4,103 67,214
Otorhinolaringology 52,595 14,531 67,126 38,544 7,263 45,807
Urology 17,064 9,408 26,477 15,436 6,946 22,382
Neurosurgery 2,729 8,609 11,338 2,435 8,189 10,624
Cardiothoracic Surgery 2,245 1,215 3,460 1,455 735 2,190
Plastic Surgery 8,206 2,636 10,842 7,408 2,662 10,070
*Hand & Microsurgery 362 827 1,189 566 1,219 1,785
*Paediatric Surgery 5,131 2,336 7,467 4,150 1,484 5,634
*Hepatobiliary Surgery 2,636 985 3,531 3,531 1,676 4,802
*Breast & Endocrine Surgery 3,065 229 3,294 2,618 224 2,842
*Vascular Surgery 3,218 600 3,818 2,550 388 2,938
*Colorectal Surgery 848 1,097 2,035 1,367 1,367 2,734
Total 363,595 475,505 842,268 277,935 345,150 625,376
Source: Health Informatics Centre, MoH

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