Nearly 2.5 million visits, excluding women in labour, were made to emergency rooms in the 28 public general hospitals in 2012. The most common age of patients were infants before their first birthday, adults aged 18 to 34 and elderly aged 75 and up, while children aged five to 17 are the least likely to need emergency care. Higher rates of emergency room visits were reported in the Jerusalem and Haifa regions and lower rates in the South.
These are some of the statistics released by the Health Ministry on February 5 Wednesday in a 71-page report on “Visits to Emergency Rooms in 2012.”
In 2012, three percent return visits occurred on the same day of the original visit, and 18% within a month. Three-quarters of non-delivery visits were due to diseases and the rest from trauma such as accidents and violent acts. A third of visits involving trauma were by men compared to one fifth by women. |
