The situation is also exacerbated by fewer primary care clinics operating. Customers are pictured at the counter at a drug store in Taipei in an undated photograph. They are to operate on the other seven days to provide services in internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics and orthopedics. Emergency responsibility hospitals are facilities designated under a tiered emergency medical system to provide round-the-clock emergency care in their service areas, with 204 nationwide as of September last year. Extra precautions would also be taken to prevent transmission of the flu, which could be exacerbated by holiday travel, Centers for Disease Control Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞) said.
