By Lee Hui Chieh

SERIOUSLY unwell patients who turn up at the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics (NHGP) now get to see doctors sooner.

Instead of the usual one-hour wait, patients who feel breathless, have chest pains or an extremely high fever need only wait about 15 minutes in the nine polyclinics run by the group.

Those with a high fever - exceeding 38 deg C for children and 39 deg C for adults - areisolated from other patients and attended to separately.

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