Public hospitals are overwhelmed, with patients waiting hours or days. The bottlenecks are tangled across triage, staffing, records and discharge — a true systems problem.

Create an innovation that reduces patient waiting times in overcrowded public hospitals. Study who is affected, dig past the obvious symptoms to the real root causes, and design a solution that could actually work in the real world. There is no single correct answer — what matters is the quality of your thinking, the stakeholders you consider, and how clearly you justify your chosen direction.

• Who is most affected by this problem, and how did you account for them?
• What is the single biggest risk to your solution working?
• Which assumption, if wrong, would break your whole idea?