Refer patients only after consultation with hospital they are referred to: Health Ministry

The Health Ministry has instructed hospitals to refer patients only after consultation with the hospital they are referring the patients to.

Issuing a notice, the ministry pointed that patients have been suffering when the hospitals arbitrarily refer them to other hospitals. "Our attention has been seriously drawn to the fact that patients are forced to go to 2-4 hospitals for treatment, and some have even died in lack of timely treatment," the notice reads.