SINGAPORE, March 6 — A new integrated general and community hospital will be built in Tengah Town by the early 2030s, as part of plans to address Singapore’s hospital capacity...
Singapore health minister: New hospital in Tengah by early 2030s; public hospitals to add 4,000 beds over next six yearsSINGAPORE, March 6 — A new integrated general and community hospital will be built in Tengah Town by the early 2030s, as part of plans to address Singapore’s hospital capacity crunch, said Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung.
The new Tengah hospital will “best complement current hospitals in the west”, said Mr Ong. These include Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital.On why Tengah was chosen as the location, Mr Ong added: “We have just completed one in the north, Woodlands Health, are building another in the east, and expanding SGH in the central region. So, the next new public hospital should be in the west.
“To tackle the challenge more fundamentally, we need to expand capacity, and catch up for the time lost due to Covid-19,” said Mr Ong on Wednesday.Slated to open this year, the SGH Emergency Medicine Building will have about 150 beds, while the SGH Elective Care Centre is set to open in 2027 with 300 beds.
“Patients can be assured that they will not pay any more for this service than they do in a public hospital as all our hospitals intend to price MIC@Home similar to or lower than a normal ward,” said Mr Ong. Last August, the MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, which is running the pilot, said that the service will help to bolster future hospital planning and add bed capacity to buffer the healthcare system.
During their MIC@Home stay, patients’ conditions are monitored remotely by care teams comprising of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
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