Tokyo - About half of Japan's medical facilities have not finished preparation for the year 2000 computer glitch, a government report said yesterday.
Forty-nine per cent of 2,281 major medical facilities across the nation said they ended their preparation for the Y2K problem by late September, according to the report submitted to the Prime Minister, Mr Keizo Obuchi.
The rest of the medical facilities said they had not completed preparations or gave no reply.