Table 3.

General outpatient department visits and referrals by region—2019 nation-wide assessment of Federal Tertiary Healthcare Institutions (the Hospital Modernisation Pathway questionnaire)

	Number of patients visiting per day	Number of patients visiting per month*	Monthly referrals received by facility	Referrals per visit (%)	Referrals per 1000 visits	Specialist referrals within facility (%)†
Federal Capital Territory and north central	336	10213	297	2·9%	29	29%
Northeast	402	12 242	1087	8·9%	89	21%
Northwest	1801	54 826	3996	7·3%	73	70%
Southeast	3917	119 218	411	0·3%	3	53%
South	685	20 846	481	2·3%	23	40%
Southwest	834	25 398	1339	5·3%	53	41%
National average per facility	1374	41 808	1418	3·4%	34	44%

^*Estimated from values in the preceding column (number of patients visiting per day) based on the assumption that a month is equal to 30·437 days.

^†Referrals from General Outpatient Departments to specialists within the same facility.