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2024 Taiwan Health and Welfare Report

psychiatric beds, chronic tuberculosis beds and 3. From 2020 to 2023, the "Incentive Program
leprosy beds). Refer to Figure 4-1. for Medical Centers or Major Emergency Care
Hospitals to Support Emergency Medical Services
Section 2 Emergency Medical Services in Remote Islands and Areas with Insufficient
MOHW continued to reinforce the emergency Medical Resources" was continuously implemented.
medical services and to promote the comprehensive The program aimed to enhance the manpower of
contingency mechanism: specialist physicians and to ensure uninterrupted
1. Emergency responsibility hospitals until the end of medical care in remote areas. In 2023, a total of
2023 were listed and stratified according to grades 139 specialist physicians from 30 medical centers
in Table 4-2. There have been 52 medical sub- or advanced emergency responsibility hospital
regions, with 46 advanced first-aid responsibility supported 29 hospitals in remote islands and areas
hospitals, 77 intermediate ones and 83 general with insufficient medical resources.
ones established.
4. As of the end of 2023, there were approximately
2. In 2023, 20 projects were rewarded for 13,899 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in
implementing "Improvement Plan for Areas with Taiwan, equivalent to 60.4 AEDs for every 100,000
Insufficient Medical Resources." We aimed to people. A total of 3,794 places have been certified
establish four models, including "emergency as "safe locations" which means that AEDs were
medical stations in tourist areas," "First aid Stations installed indoor, and at least 70% of employees
during Nights and Holidays," and "Enhancement have completed CPR and AED training.
of Capabilities of the Emergency Department
Capabilities in Regions with Insufficient Emergency Section 3 Children's Medical Care
Medical Resources, "Reinforcement of the 24-hour Launched in 2021, the Program for Excellence
emergency department capacity in regions with in Child Health Care aims to invest in child health
inadequate medical resources." by improving perinatal and critical medical care and
strengthening primary care and health management.

Figure 4-1 Status of Hospital Beds in Medical Care Institutions, 2023

General Inpatient

101,417 beds
73%
Specialty Care
37,244 beds€note

27%

Source: Department of Statistics, MOHW, Medical institution service volume statistical year book
Note: Special beds include intensive care beds, burn beds, burn intensive care beds, infant beds, emergency observation beds, palliative
care beds, chronic respiratory care beds, subacute respiratory care beds, psychiatric intensive care beds, general isolation beds,
positive pressure isolation beds, negative pressure isolation beds, bone marrow transplant beds, beds for compulsory treatment of
sexual offenders, acute post-acute care beds, integrated medicine emergency transfer beds, surgical recovery beds, infant beds,
hemodialysis beds, peritoneal dialysis beds, custody beds, and others.

Table 4-2 Number of Emergency Responsibility Hospital in 2023, by Grade

Emergency Treatment Grade Advanced Intermediate General Total
Number of Institutions 46 77 83 206
Source: Department of Medical Affairs, MOHW, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

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