I was wondering (more to whoever knows the SOP in government hospital),

For government hospital, for surgery you will need to be in a queue. If however the case where the patient are in urgency (life death situation) they will expedite it based on the risk and urgency of the patient through the queue?

What's the SOP for assigning the patient to the surgery queue? Just based on number of people alone? Or there's risk / urgency factor that are being taken into consideration?

Thank in advance.

PS for more context, cancer removal surgery for example.

This post has been edited by Imaizumi: Jun 27 2019, 09:24 AM

Thank you all. The said patient have gone through the operation a week earlier due to open slot.

Hope reader would include the said patient in their prayer for fast recovery.