The number of procedures carried out at Ennis Hospital dropped by nearly 13% in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic levels.
Data from the Central Statistics Office shows over 25,000 procedures were undertaken at the Clare hospital in the second year of the pandemic, as Clare FM’s Derrick Lynch reports.
A total of 25,097 procedures were carried out at Ennis Hospital in 2021 – a drop of nearly 13% on the 28,789 which were completed prior to the pandemic in 2019.
2021 saw nearly 17,000 daycase procedures undertaken and almost 8,300 in-patients in Clare.
The most common appointments were for urinary system procedures – with nearly 5,400 day patients receiving such care.
This was followed by the nearly 5,000 patients who attended for haemodialysis.
The highest number of in-patient appointments were for non-invasive, cognitive and other interventions – with nearly 3,300 people undergoing these procedures.
This was followed by the 1,336 obstetric procedures for in-patients at Ennis Hospital in 2021.
The average length of stay for those undergoing a procedure at the hospital was nearly 7 and a half days.
Notably, the number of patients undergoing haemodialysis in Ennis increased by over 40% on pre-pandemic levels, one of the few procedures which saw increased demand.
