Four-hour wait for outpatients at KL Hospital

Star: Outpatients have to wait at least four hours before they can receive treatment at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital, according to a report in Nanyang Siang Pau.
A check by its reporter at the outpatient unit of the hospital showed that the process between registration, consultation and receiving medicine took that much time.
The report also questioned whether government hospitals had implemented the policy announced by Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek last year that the waiting period at outpatient departments be reduced to one-and-a-half-hours.
According to the article, the reporter who checked out the system at the KL Hospital took 25 minutes to get a queue number.
After consultation with a doctor, the report stated that outpatients would have to wait at least a further 45 minutes at the pharmacy to get their medicines.