The Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA) annual statistic report for the year 2017 showed a significant growth in the number of physicians working in Dubai’s health field.

The report revealed that the registered physicians in Dubai were 8,700 for the year 2017, this is a 82.4 per cent increase from 2010 and one percent increase from 2016.

The annual report published this year aims to aid in understanding the impact of the current health services provided on Dubai’s populations and work towards their betterment as the report provides detailed information on the distribution of health conditions, diagnoses and procedures.

The report also aims to benefit policy and decision makers in the health field who rely on this data when allocating resources as it shows important health trends that help caregivers spot new developments, track and monitor population health status over time.

Among the statistics revealed by the report are:

Customer visits

According to the report, the authority received 2,014,012 customers in 2017 out of which 321,241 were Rashid Hospital customers, 381,334 visited Dubai Hospital, 149,640 visited Latifa hospital, 122,327 visited Hatta Hospital and 1,039,470 visited the authority’s 12 primary healthcare centers.

Surgeries

The number of surgical operations performed in DHA hospitals during was 26,000, with an average of 2,208 monthly operations. Major operations amounted to 13,771 and accounted to 52 per cent of surgeries.

Rashid, Dubai, Latifa, &Hatta Hospitals accounted for 30.4 per cent, 41.1 per cent, 25.3 per cent and 3.2 per cent of the total operations, respectively.

Main surgeries include orthopedic surgery (20.4 per cent), obstetrics & gynecology (19.2 per cent) and general surgery (15.6per cent).

Outpatient visits & Inpatient visits

The authority recorded 2,257,393 visits to its outpatient clinics, where Emirati nationals constituted 65.7 per cent of all outpatients visits, of which female nationals accounted to 51.8 per cent of the total National attendance.

Of the around 2.26million outpatient clinic visits, DHA hospitals accounted to 42 per cent, 49.6 per cent were primary healthcare and 8.4 took place at the authority’s specialized Health centres with 8.4 per cent of the total attendance. Meanwhile the report found there were 76,963 inpatient visits in 2017.

DHA Dental Centres

The total number of attendees in DHA dental clinics was 167,700 patients, during the year of 2017. The percentage of nationals was 86.2 per cent of total with females constituted around 59.3 per cent of the total. The Dental treatments of 2017 were 181,228 treatments, provided through 15 Dental Clinics and 67 chairs.

Medical fitness Centres

The authority’s 17 medical fitness centres performed 2,012,361 tests during the year 2017, performed through 17 centres. It amounted for 6% increase than that of 2016. About half of these tests performed in Al Muhaisnah (46.9 per cent) with an increase of (3.5 per cent) than that of 2016.

Hospital Beds

There are 2,193 hospital beds spread across DHA’s hospitals; 779 beds in Rashid Hospital, 678 in Dubai Hospital, 468 in Latifa Hospital and 118 in Hatta Hospital. There are also 66 beds in medical fitness centres