MANAGEMENT SCIENCE DECISION ANALYSIS SIMULATION MODELS USING

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: DECISION ANALYSIS (SIMULATION MODELS)

(USING SAMPLING DATA FROM EXCEL)

Solution

On an average, 6 patients arrive at the clinic per hour, average checking time per patient = 15 minutes

There are two doctors, hence they can see easily 60/15 patients = 4 patients in an hour if they come in regular interval

Let us suppose all the patients knock the door at the same time, then all these 6 patients will be waiting for there line in the queue

First two patients will get the seat, whereas rest have to wait for 15 minutes before the examination of previous patients have been completed, next time 5th and 6th patient will go after waiting for half an hour

Hence there is a need of a third doctor in order to alleviate the waiting problem

Suppose 6 patients arrived at the same time (Worst case)

then the 3 doctors can attend the three patients at the same and the three remaining patients will go to each doctor one by one, hence the patient waiting time will not be more than 15 minutes in this case