FACTFILE:

Population estimate of Bermuda 2009: 64,000.

Total health expenditure: $487.3 million 2008, or $7,635 per capita. $154 million of this was public funding and $333 million was private financing (private health insurance $259.8 million, out-of-pocket payments $71.6 million).

In 2009, 83.6 percent of the population (53,837) had health insurance coverage. However, the other 16.4 percent are thought to be schoolchildren, expat consultants and their dependents, and the uninsured.

Life expectancy at birth: 79 in 2009, 78 in 2000.

Women outlive men by 5.3 years. In 2009 they had an average life expectancy of 82 years, against 77 years for men.

In 2006, 64 percent of Bermuda's population was classed as overweight or obese.

Currently 14 percent of the population have diabetes (9,000 people).

In 2007 Bermuda recorded 417 deaths. Diseases of the circulatory system are the biggest killer, at 47 percent, up from 31 percent in 2003.

The infant mortality per 1,000 was 4.9 in 2008.

HIV infections have increased from eight in 2002 to 22 in 2008 (13 men, nine women).

In 2008 there were 41 general or family medicine physicians (six per 10,000 people).

KEMH has 360 beds, a ratio of 6 beds per 1,000 people. In 2008 the hospital employed 45 physicians, 391 nurses and 94 health professionals.

MWI has 95 beds one bed per 1,000 people. It employed nine physicians, 87 nurses and 15 health professionals.

There are 127 registered doctors on the Island, 31 dentists, 30 pharmacists and 522 nurses.