Children immunisation rate in 2021 reached 100%

Muscat: The number of health care establishments in the Sultanate of Oman reached 1,848 in 2021.

Of those, 65 percent are private clinics, according to the Health Bulletin 2022, issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

The number of workers in public and private health establishments stood at 56,119.

With regard to indicators of health, the rate of coverage of children’s immunisations in 2021 reached 100 percent. while the maternal mortality rate increased significantly from 20.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017 to 45.7 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021, and Al Buraimi Governorate came the highest among governorates in the percentage of caesarean section deliveries out of the total number of deliveries in the institutions of the Ministry of Health, as it accounted for 29.7 percent in 2021.

As for the average number of per capita visits per year to the outpatient clinics of the institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Health, the health bulletin indicated that it decreased from 3.5 percent in 2017 to 2.7 percent in 2021, and the governorate of North Al Batinah came the highest in terms of patients’ visits to outpatient clinics in the institutions of the Ministry of Health, reaching 19 percent of the total visits in the governorates in the Sultanate of Oman.