A hospital does many surgeries in a day. A standard hospital is open 24 hours with...

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A hospital does many surgeries in a day. A standard hospital isopen 24 hours with no breaks in a day. In examining patient flowand surgery process in a 2 hour period. Let us assume a long lineupof over 1000 people waiting for surgery. Surgery involves thefollowing steps:
A. Check driver's licence, 60s on average exponentialdistribution.
B. Talk with patient about preexisting health problems, which is90s.
C. Doing the surgery, which takes 180s or 3 minutes, again onaverage exponential distribution.
D. Patient, post operation, will rest immobile for 30seconds.
Consider that there are 4 doctors with one doctor taking each stepA, B, C, D. These doctors are not flexible and will only do thestep they are assigned to. Each step can at most have 1 patient ata time. In a 120 minutes, how many patients can the clinic helpoperate? (2 hours). 20 marks/100 - Show your work.

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Step A 60 sec Step B 90 sec Step C 180 sec Step D 30 Sec Total Processing time per patient 360 sec 4 minutes if done as a single operation With a continuous inflow and 4 See Answer

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