The number of patients who applied to the emergency service in Afyonkarahisar in 2022 drew attention. Numbers Hospital Chief Physician Op. Dr. Explained by Mehmet Duran. Explaining the patient application figures of Afyonkarahisar State Hospital in 2022, Dr. Duran pointed out that in 2022 the Emergency Service worked as hard as the hospital outpatient clinics and emphasized that the numbers were too high. Here are the details…
“It can be interpreted as almost the entire population of the city came to the emergency service”
Dr. Duran said, “We see that more patients come to the Emergency Department in 2022 than to the polyclinic. There are 550 thousand patients who come to the Emergency Service in 2022. Looking at the numbers, it can be interpreted that almost the entire population of the city came to the Emergency Service.”
“A SERIOUS INTENSITY”
Noting which patients applied to the Emergency Department the most and between which hours, Dr. Duran said:
“The Emergency Service gets busy especially in the evening. There is a serious intensity between 16.00 and 23.00 at night, and we arrange the personnel and necessary equipment there accordingly.”
“MORE PATIENTS WHO SHOULD NOT APPLY TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT”
Dr. Duran said, “When we look at the patients who applied to the Emergency Service, we see that the majority of patients with flu infections, which we call outpatients ‘who should not apply to the Emergency Service’, apply.” (UAV)