Health care and social welfare

Health care and social assistance
Hospitals and pharmacies
Number of beds in general hospitals	358	x	x
Number of pharmacies	299	x	x
Social assistance
The number of people in families benefiting from social assistance in total, including due to:	24 635	22 380	90,8
long term or serious illness	11 497	11 333	98,6
poverty	9 540	8 530	89,4
unemployment	5 983	4 274	71,4
disability	5 894	5 764	97,8
learned helplessness	5 497	4 904	89,2
need for maternity protection	2 963	2 455	82,9
homelessness	1 324	1 376	103,9
violence in the family	957	4 106	429,0
alcoholism	701	645	92,0
The number of pensioners in social welfare homes (including subsidiaries, as at 31.12), of which in institutions for:	664	687	103,5
children and young people with intellectual disabilities	59	60	101,7
elderly and the physically disabled people	134	136	101,5
chronically somatically ill	343	345	100,6
Value of social assistance benefits implemented as part of municipal tasks (own and commissioned) in PLN million	79,1	315,3	398,8