The Development of Critical Care Medicine in China: From SARS to COVID-19 Pandemic

Table 1

Medical resources in the the western, eastern, and central regions of China in 2002 and 2018 [4, 7].

Medical resources	Western		Eastern		Central		Total
	2002	2018	2002	2018	2002	2018	2002	2018
Hospitals	5,507	10,492	6,543	13,036	5,794	9,481	17,844	33,009
Hospital beds	768,757	1,869,563	1,218,946	2,626,720	919,450	2,023,466	2,907,153	6,519,749
ICU beds	—	13,536	—	17,510	—	14,822	1,934	45,868
ICU doctors	—	19,064	—	34,661	—	22,025	2,955	75,750
ICU nurses	—	19,731	—	31,692	—	21,076	3,625	72,499
Population (million)	366.91	379.56	482.32	581.09	425.96	435.88	1,275.19	1,396.53
GDP (billion)	2,008.09	18,431.89	6,828.91	50,631.80	2,965.07	22,409.42	11,802.07	91,471.41