lack of patients

I have resumed my data collection after taking one-month break but there is one big problem that I never anticipated. I forgot that this time of the year is the main holiday season. Many patients did not come for their consultations and even some of the consultants took their annual leave. It is a bit frustrating for me as a researcher though. My research is primarily interviewing patients and if the patients or the doctor took holiday....my progress will be hampered down. At the moment, my research progress is quite slow. Hopefully this will be normal by February.

p:s/ I wish AMS will be over asap :)