Originally Posted by Unregistered

LOL! Thanks for the laugh.

It basically refers to patients who are "walk-in". Polyclinics work on an appointment basis now, ostensibly to reduce doctor workload by limiting the number of patients they see per day into around 40 10-min slots, plus to reduce overcrowding and long patient wait times.

Of course that's inadequate capacity so there is a provision for "walk-in" patients, aka, no more slots left already. These are the 5000/9000.

So far only the east cluster sees them. Central and west cluster much better at protecting their staff.