HEALTH (Government establishments
only)
(all data relate to 1996) 
Health personnel
Medical Officers
76
In-patient admissions
Dental Officers
11
(Victoria Hospital)
Medical consultant (15)
26
Other professional (16)
89
No. of admissions 13,311
Pharmacists
5
Average length of 4.95%
Para-medicals
232
Occupancy rate: 73.4%
Nurses
345
Admissions per bed 59.1%
Student nurses
92
Health auxillaries
789
Out-patient and Clinic attendances
Hospital beds (Number)
414
(Number of attendances/visits)
(All hospitals)
Doctors consultation
282,832
Most dominant cause of death
Family Planning
38,278
(expressed as % of total Deaths)
Children examined at School 8,846
Diseases of the circulatory system
35.0%
Home Visits
8,187
Neoplasms(Cancer)
17%
Specialist Clinic
Diseases of the respiratory system
7.8%
Mahe, Praslin & La Digue 63,807
Notes
(1) Population estimates
rebased using the 1994 Population Census.
(2) Due to increase
in cruise ship visitor arrivalsstaying for short periods.
(3) Survey of departing
visitors at Seychelles International Airport
(4) 1997 provisional figures.
(5) There was a
drop in volume of activities by the foreign fishing vessels in the Port
in 1994
(6) Excludes fish
caught by research vessels.
(7) Production began
on a commercial basis in 1994
(8) Operation started
in November 1995
(9) Rrefers to number
of users who have e-mails.
(10) Refers to passengers
who do not pass through immigration control.
(11) New weights
used since Jan 1993, according to the results of the HES , 1991-1992
(12) Figures for the
private sector are based on Social Security records. These exclude
domestic workers, the self-employed and family workers.
(13) As from 1997
includes government and private schools
(14) Includes School
for the Exceptional child.
(15) For previous years
was categorised as Other Professionals.
(16) Includes Phychologists,
and epidemiologists.
(P) Provisional
OTHER STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS
1. Agriculture Survey
7. Statistical Abstract
2. Census Report (1987)
8. Statistical Bulletin
3. Fishing Survey Report (1980-1983)
9. Tourism & Migration Statistics
4. Household Expenditure Survey (1983-1984)
10. Trade Reports
5. National Income and Expenditure (1989 - 1996)
11. Literacy Report
6. Population Projections 1996 - 2019.
12. Census Report 1994
Seychelles in Figures is prepared by the Statistics
and Database Administration Section(MISD).
P.O. Box 206, Victoria, Seychelles. Further information
may be obtained from this address/E-mail.