Patients hoping to enter Delhi's two premier government-run speciality hospitals for surgery may have to wait for a period between six months to three years.

While the General Surgery Department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has a minimum waiting period of three to five months, in Gastro-intestinal Surgery it is six months to one year and the longest waiting period is in the Neuro-surgery department: 18 months to three years.

All the major departments -- General Surgery, Gastro-intestinal, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, Nephrology, Cardiac and Neuro -- have long waiting lists for surgery, reveals an RTI reply.

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