{
  "id": "ph-icu-beds",
  "title": "Adult critical-care (ICU) beds in the Philippines",
  "metric": "Adult critical-care beds, national",
  "unit": "ICU beds",
  "kind": "count",
  "volatility": "static",
  "direction_note": "a low and slow-growing ICU-bed count is the capacity a retiree's 2am stroke or cardiac arrest competes for",
  "publisher": "No Margin Left",
  "source": {
    "label": "Phua J, Lim CM, Faruq MO, et al. Critical care bed capacity in Asian countries and regions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (Asian ABC2). Lancet Reg Health West Pac 2023;44:100982",
    "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10733690/"
  },
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "No Margin Left, \"Adult critical-care (ICU) beds in the Philippines\" (Adult critical-care beds, national). CC BY 4.0. https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-icu-beds.json",
  "canonical": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-icu-beds.json",
  "csv": "https://nomarginleft.com/data/ph-icu-beds.csv",
  "retrieved": "2026-08-20",
  "stale": false,
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2017",
      "value": 2335,
      "source": {
        "label": "Phua et al., Asian ABC2, Lancet Reg Health West Pac 2023, eTable 13 (Change in Number of Critical Care Beds from 2017 to 2022) — the 2017 baseline column",
        "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10733690/"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-20",
      "note": "2.2 adult critical-care beds per 100,000 population. The 2017 baseline carried into the 2023 ABC2 comparison from the earlier Asian ABC study.\n"
    },
    {
      "date": "2022",
      "value": 3096,
      "source": {
        "label": "Phua et al., Asian ABC2, Lancet Reg Health West Pac 2023, Table 1 and eTable 13 — the 2022 count",
        "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10733690/"
      },
      "confidence": "sourced",
      "checked": "2026-08-20",
      "note": "2.7 adult critical-care beds per 100,000; 450 ICUs, the ICU count itself estimated rather than counted (eTable 7). +32.6% absolute and +20.6% per capita on 2017. The bed figure came off the DOH COVID-19 dashboard, and the Philippines was exempted from the census's \"open and staffed\" criterion, so the comparability the change figure implies is softer than the arithmetic looks. Stated by the source; the caveats travel with it.\n"
    }
  ],
  "corrections": []
}