Patients never leave hospitalization

[Lord Counta]

So... this is a recurring problem I face. At some point in the game, everyone in hospitalization decides to never leave the place. I track a few patients by kicking another away to another hospital, and I notice that one person who I've assigned antacides has waited much longer than 72 hours without receiving treatment. Nurses do their rounds but ignore giving out treatment. I forcibly sent away one patient to study what would happen with someone I could monitor at an earlier stage. A new patient had surgery and was given a number of treatments that were implemented, but she has now waited more than 48 hours to be released.

So far I only have hospitalization at General Surgery, Emergency and ICU, and I'm losing money since the hospitalized patients never leave/pay. General Surgery is the largest, and the one I've studied the most. There are 12 beds in regular hospitalization and 4 in HDU. There are also 5 nurses both day and night, with patient care enabled, patient transfer enabled and occasionally assist surgery enabled. There are also 6 on-call doctors (day and night) who mostly sit on their asses.

The emergency hospitalization is equally crippled. People come in but almost never leave, and because the other department is at full capacity there is no patient transfer, and the ambulance is practically waiting for someone to collapse or die in hospitalization. The hospitalization is seriously gridlocked and I am bleeding money. There has been a period of 5 days without any insurance money from any hospitalization. All the hours spent to build my hospital now seem wasted, as I probably have no choice but to abandon the save.

This is a bug I've encountered before, and once it has happened it is never solved. I don't have any mods other than the DLC:s. Does anyone have a solution to this? And if a game developer is reading this, are you aware of this issue and if so what can you tell me about this?

[Sleepy068]

How many doctors do you have employed? Do you have any doctors that have diagnostics only selected (they won't assist in surgery). Do you have enough stretchers or examination rooms available? Nurses won't give treatment, only doctors will do this.

[Lord Counta]

Originally posted by Sleepy068:

How many doctors do you have employed? Do you have any doctors that have diagnostics only selected (they won't assist in surgery). Do you have enough stretchers or examination rooms available? Nurses won't give treatment, only doctors will do this.

In General Surgery I have 5 on-call doctors, and 2 working in the General Surgery Office (let's abbreviate it to GSO) during the day. During the night it is also 5 on-call doctors, and 1 in the GSO. I have zero doctors that ONLY does diagnostics in the on-call room. There are 2 examination rooms who both have "Workload Day: None", and "Workload Night: None". In the nurses office there are 4 stretchers and I have 1 spare in an examination room (no complaints ever about lack of stretchers). The on-call doctors are idle constantly until they leave to fulfill their needs (close proximity to those rooms, btw).

PS. I have now set 1 on-call doctor (night&day) to ONLY do diagnostics, and now I finally see people leaving the hospital.

Thank you for the solution.