Earlier this week, desperate scenes developed on the Greek island of Kos, where police officers used fire extinguishers and batons against crowds waiting for registration papers.
After you have spent most of your life waiting in registration or welfare offices, or for your luggage in the airport, you fall ill and are deposited in a hospital corridor and are left waiting to die.
A typical urban polyclinic, which was usually associated with a hospital, included reception and waiting rooms, registration desk, and consulting and treatment rooms of the following: internist, pediatrician, gynecologist, surgeon, eye specialist, ear, nose, and throat specialist, neurologist, urologist, and dentist.
'The Gate of Lament' Awal Idris, a 20-year-old Ethiopian also waiting for registration at the IOM departure centre, has painful memories of his journey to Yemen.
Just over half of the health centers had a complete composite score taking into consideration four domains: 1) presence of HIV diagnostic and treatment services, 2) availability of waiting and registration area, 3) availability of counselling area, and 4) availability of furniture (Fig. 1).
People line up to wait for registration at the reception center for refugees and asylum-seekers in central Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.
UNICEF, along with UNHCR and the Kurdistan Regional Government, have identified water, sanitation facilities, shaded areas and health services as urgent needs families require while they wait for registration and transportation to transit sites.
Because of China's limited medical resources, long waiting times for registration are common in the health care system, and the registration waiting time is generally much longer than the consultation waiting time.
This quote also reflects a phenomenon called double registration, which occurs when women move locations during the three month waiting period following registration and then re-register in their new location [ 50].
A waiting period between registration and voting was shortened from 90 days to 30.
