He said sometimes patients died while waiting to be attended to because of the long queue.
“The hospital serves over a million people in Port Moresby, Central and Gulf,” he said.
“Limited staff are struggling to meet the demand which reduces the quality of care given to a sick person.
Specialised care needed
“As a specialist hospital, it should be concentrating on delivering specialised care so that our people do not need to go overseas for that.
“Instead, we are taking on primary and secondary care as we do not have a separate hospital for the growing population in the city.”