KOTA KINABALU, June 29 -- Sabah's Health Department has responded to a viral Facebook post depicting the crowded conditions at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), highlighting the overstretched public hospital's infrastructure and manpower.

The statement came after a Facebook user named Sualim Gopog shared his experience accompanying a family member to the hospital's Emergency and Trauma Department (ETD) in the early hours of the morning including slow moving queues and many people found sleeping in the lobby and outside the hospital building.

In the widely shared post, Gopog described seeing dozens of people sleeping on benches and on the floor of the corridors, relatives searching for food after the hospital canteen closed at 12am, near-i...