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Patient Statistics.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 March 2004

Tuesday, 30 March 2004

Ceisteanna (227, 228, 229, 230)

Dan Neville

Ceist:

341 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of hospitalisation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 due to kidney failure. [9552/04]

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Dan Neville

Ceist:

342 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of liver transplants carried out here in 2001, 2002 and 2003. [9553/04]

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Dan Neville

Ceist:

343 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of self-inflicted poisonings recorded in each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003; and the same figures by gender. [9554/04]

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Dan Neville

Ceist:

345 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in 2001, 2002 and 2003 who were discharged from hospitals here with a diagnosis of paracetamol poison; and the number of these which were diagnosed with a liver condition. [9556/04]

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Freagraí scríofa

I propose to take Questions Nos. 341 to 343, inclusive, and 345 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following tables. The figures are derived from the hospital in-patient inquiry, HIPE, system which records information on hospitalisations in all publicly funded acute hospitals in the State. This system records hospital episodes and is not a patient-based system. Thus, where a patient is admitted into a hospital on more than one occasion, these individual hospital episodes are recorded.

Table 1. Number of hospital discharges for selected conditions, 2001-2003

Year

Kidney Failure

Liver Transplants

Number of Discharges with diagnosis of Paracetamol Poisoning

Paracetamol Poisoning Discharges with Diagnosis of a Liver condition

2001

7,783

32

1,568

35

2002

9,266

40

1,390

36

2003*

8,368

14

1,243

19

Table 2. Number of discharges due to Self-Inflicted Poisoning, 2000-2003

Year

Male

Female

Total

2000

1,469

2,262

3,731

2001

1,357

2,284

3,641

2002

1,326

2,068

3,394

2003*

1,111

1,789

2,900

*2003 figures are provisional.

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