Hospital stays in Hungary average nearly ten days, longer than in any other European Union member state, data compiled by Eurostat show. In-patients in Hungary spent 9.8 days in hospital, on average, the data from 2017 show.
The average hospital stay in the Czech Republic was 9.6 days, the second-longest in the EU, while hospital stays averaged 7.1 days in Poland and 7.4 days in Slovakia.
Hospital stays in the EU were the shortest in the Netherlands, where in-patients spent 4.5 days on average.
MTI
