PRIMARY CARE CLINICS IN MALAYSIA 4.1
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National Medical Care Statistics 2014
Private clinics
The operating days and hours of private clinics are shown in Table 4.3.2. Note that private clinics which operated less than five days in a week were excluded from NMCS 2014. As a result, the operating days
and hours of these clinics were not captured by the survey. • More than half 54.0 of the clinics in the private sector operated six days per week.
• Clinics which operated Monday through Sunday represented 40.2 of all private clinics, while only 5.8 of the private clinics operated five days in a week.
• Only 5.0 of the clinics in the private sector provided 24-hour services.
Table 4.3.2: Operating days and hours
A B
private clinics in 2014
Clinic operation
C
nweighted count n
D EF G H
Weighted count n
D E I JKF
H
Percent
L M
clinics 95
P
CI n
D EI JK F H
Operating days
5 daysweek 24
280 5.8 3.6–8.0
6 daysweek 222
2,597 54.0 49.3–58.7
7 daysweek 163
1,933 40.2 35.5–44.9
Operating hours
24 hoursday 390
4,570 95.0 92.9–97.1
24 hoursday 19
240 5.0 2.9–7.1