China’s official figures show that the total number of hospital admissions in the country dropped by 35.83 million in 2020.
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On July 12, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) National Health Commission released the 2021 Statistical Bulletin on China’s health development that said the number of inpatients in China’s national health institutions increased every year from 2016 to 2019 but dropped sharply in 2020 by 35.83 million. Even with a slight rebound in 2021, that year saw 18.7 million fewer hospitalizations than in 2019.
Total number of hospitalizations throughout China from 2016 to 2021. (Bar Chart Compiled by The Epoch Times)
The data from the bulletin also shows that there was no shortage of medical resources in China from 2016 to 2021, and the number of beds and health technicians in China’s medical and health institutions increased every year….