Madrid (EFE) those of the digestive system and tumors.
The main diagnosis of deaths in 2021 were infectious and parasitic diseases, including covid-19 (20.9%), ahead of those of the circulatory system (18.8%) and tumors (17.1%) , according to the Hospital Morbidity Survey published this Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
In total, in 2021, 222,653 people died in Spanish hospitals, 0.8% less than in 2020; At the same time, there were a total of 4,513,640 hospital discharges, 6.1% more than a year earlier, the vast majority due to improvement (88.1%), 4.9% due to deaths and the rest due to transfers to other centers or other causes.