Taipei, Sept. 23 (CNA) Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said Tuesday that six urgent care centers could be set up in Taipei and Taoyuan as early as November to ease congestion in hospital emergency rooms on Sundays and public holidays. The program could be implemented as early as November, with three centers each planned for Taipei and Taoyuan, Shih said. The urgent care centers will operate mainly on Sundays or consecutive public holidays from 8 a.m. to midnight, offering internal medicine, pediatrics, and minor surgery, including minor wound suturing, as well as X-rays, blood tests and medication, he said. In Taoyuan, the centers will be set up in regional hospitals that do not currently operate emergency rooms, with community medical staff responsible for providing such services. He indicated that similar emergency care centers already exist in countries including the United States, Japan and Germany.