Number of Hospital Admissions and Death Resulting from Alcohol Overdose

6 August 2018

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Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr Kok Heng Leun

Nominated MP

Question No. 924

To ask the Minister for Health in the last 10 years (a) what is the number of hospital admissions for alcohol overdose; and (b) what is the number of deaths resulting from alcohol overdose.

Written Reply

1 Based on available public hospital data, between 2008 and 2017, the average number of hospital admissions per year for alcohol-related conditions, including alcohol intoxication was about 550 cases.

2 Separately, over the same time period, we have not had any deaths reported where alcohol intoxication is the primary cause of death. In this same period, an average of 14 deaths per year were caused by longer term effects of alcohol intake including deaths from acute alcoholic hepatitis and advanced alcoholic cirrhosis.