188 cases of excessive alcohol in hospital
In 2009 alone there were a total of 188 cases admitted to hospital due to excessive consumption of alcohol.
Answering a parliamentary question by Noel Farrugia (PL), Social Policy Minister John Dalli said such cases were broken down into three categories.
Category A covered alcohol dependence syndrome or withdrawal state when one was trying to cut down on excessive alcohol intake.
Category B included intoxication caused by alcohol in any person who was not dependent on alcohol. Category C covered cases of liver disease attributed to alcohol.
In category A there had been 64 admissions (16 women and 48 men), in category B, 91 (24 women and 67 men), and in category C, 33 (six women and 27 men).
Minister Dalli made it clear that the figures did not include people who had been examined in the Emergency Department but not admitted to any ward. The figures referred to admissions and not number of persons, because it could be that one person was admitted more than once in the same period for the same condition.
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Christian Sciberras
Feb 9th 2010, 17:39
People don't get drunk!
At all!!
L. Dimech
Feb 9th 2010, 16:15
This news release appeared on The Independent - UK on the 31 December:
New Year revellers who are admitted to hospital to sleep off their alcoholic excesses should be charged a fee of more than £500 for the privilege, a leading think-tank has proposed.
Policy Exchange said that binge drinking this New Year's Eve was set to cost taxpayers £23m. It suggested that the burden should be removed from the NHS and passed on to individuals, with a £532 charge for anyone admitted for less than 24 hours with acute alcohol intoxication. The number of people entering hospital for alcohol intoxication has doubled in a decade.
the head of Policy Exchange's health & social care unit, said the Government needed to review its strategy in tackling binge drinking. "Alcohol misuse in Britain is at a level where it constitutes a public health epidemic – direct costs to the NHS are nearly £3bn a year," he said.
"We recommend that the costs of being admitted to hospital to sleep off alcoholic excess should be met by individuals, not the NHS."
How about taking that on ??