Table 2 Number of ambulances, operating hours, assignments and kilometres driven. In total and per inhabitant, by regional health enterprise. 2002

2	Number of ambulances, operating hours, assignments and kilometres driven. In total and per inhabitant, by regional health enterprise. 2002

Regional health enterprises	Number of operating ambulances¹	Number of operating hours per week	Number of assignments	Number of kilometres driven	Number of ambulances operating 24 hours per 100 000 inhabitants	Number of operating hours per inhabitant	Number of assignments per 1 000 inhabitants	Number of kilometres driven per assignment


The whole country	547	89 209	457 728	27 278 089	9	1.03	101	60
Helseregion Øst	113	14 413	155 279	8 011 370	5	0.46	96	52
Helseregion Sør	92	12 816	87 704	5 194 606	8	0.75	99	59
Helseregion Vest	94	15 722	90 064	4 175 234	8	0.88	97	46
Helseregion Midt-Norge	94	15 102	63 604	4 397 215	12	1.23	100	69
Helseregion Nord	154	31 157	61 077	5 499 664	25	3.50	132	90

¹	This figure includes both ambulances operating 24 hours and ambulances operating less than 24 hours.