Lu Hai, vice-director of the ophthalmology department at Beijing's Tongren Hospital, famous for its eye treatments, told China Daily about a recent Monday.

On Dec 17, I arrived at the hospital at 7:15 am, and began checking the wards at 7:30 am.

I started seeing outpatients at 8:30 am. The number of outpatients should be limited to 15, but I gave consultations to almost 60 people because they were all waiting for me.