WOMEN'S HOSPITAL WORKLOAD STABILIZES

ACTIVITY	1991	1994	1997	1998
Outpatient visits	80997	100,243	111,808	110,767
Admissions	15149	16036	17006	17682
Discharges	15045	15942	16982	17609
Patient days	62117	71970	78017	78049
Available bed days	100585	99280	103660	116435
Average daily census	170	197	214	-
Average open beds	276	272	284	-
% occupancy	62	72	75	67
Average length of stay	4	5	5	2.94
No. of operating cases	3295	3628	4352	4190
Deliveries	9518	10256	10188	10500
Infants born	9624	10411	10347	10687
ER visits	25213	34339	41131	44573
Assisted Conception Unit
OP visits	-	4545	9886	6732
Surgical procedures	-	380	892	1566
No. of patients treated	-	266	875	711
Ultrasound scans	-	1182	5404	5041

Qatar had 10,608 live births in 1998 from 10,500 deliveries that took place at the Women's Hospital. The number of intrauterine deaths were 79. As in the past, there was no maternal death.

The Labor and Delivery Unit attended to the birth of 21 sets of twins, 14 triplets and 2 quadruplets during 1998. The number of multiple pregnancies in 1998 were 174; it was 139 in 1997; 154 in 1996 and 161 in 1995.

The number of babies who had less than 37 weeks of gestation were 731 while babies with a birth weight of under 2500 grams were 965. There were 647 macrosomic infants who weighed over 4 kilos at birth.

Of some concern to authorities are the growing number of diabetic mothers and those who get diabetic while pregnant. There were 76 diabetic mothers and 375 gestational diabetic mothers in 1998 compared to 46 and 158 respectively in 1997.

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