Some minor haze-related illness began to surface, but free clinics across the island did not report any increase in patients with this symptoms.[1] However, attendance figures at polyclinics islandwide increased by 600 cases to about 15,000 cases of haze-related conditions in the first week of October as compared to the same period last month.[2] This is despite the National Healthcare Group reporting that the number of people "complaining of the same ailments" has decreased from the same period last year.[53]