Number of outpatients from all the departments at Soma General Hospital, and the number of new patients and revisiting patients of the ENT department.

<p>Those patients who had not visited us for more than 6 months were regarded as new patients. After the disaster, the number of new patients increased 7.7% in the first year, 4.8% in the second year, but decreased 0.8% in the third year. Thus, the differences were small.