Hemorrhoids were again the reason the greatest number of patients had surgery in Korea last year, the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) said on Sunday.
According to statistics on major surgeries in 2008 released by NHIC, 1.34 million people had 32 major kinds of surgeries on national insurance last year, including 270,000 for hemorrhoids. Some 250,000 people had cataract operations, 160,000 had Caesarian sections, and 120,000 had spinal cord operations.
The fastest growing kind of surgery was thyroid operations, which increased in number by 15.7 percent over 2007. The number of cataract operations rose by 9.7 percent and prostate operations by 9.6 percent.
Operations for hemorrhoids were most prevalent in Busan, with 764 patients per 100,000 population, followed by Ulsan (664) and North Jeolla Province (628). Gangwon Province topped the list for cataract operations with 611 patients per 100,000, followed by North Jeolla Province (592).
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