Because many large private hospitals refused to take in SARS patients during the height of the epidemic in May, the emergency services of NTUH were overstretched and had to be closed down. The BNHI came in for heavy criticism for its failure to order private hospitals to accept patients during the crisis.
五月疫情緊急時，由於不少大型私立醫學中心不願收容 SARS 病患，以致台大醫院急診室負荷過重而被迫關閉，健保局指揮不動財團醫院的批評聲浪甚囂塵上。