I believe most of us have fallen ill before. If your answer happens to be no, give me your contact details so I can arrange for an interview for next week’s blog entry. My point being if Singaporeans can expect new hospitals anytime soon. I mean it’s getting just a little too crowded in here (those who commute to work daily by the MRT especially during morning and evening rush hours know exactly what I mean.) What if one of them decides to fall sick and spread the virus to his fellow passengers?
In that regard, let’s take a look at the most recent hospital to be established in Singapore: Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. Located in Yishun, KTPH was established with the intention of providing basic healthcare and all the amenities and benefits of a community hospital to Singaporeans living in the north.
Reports of a new 550 bed hospital suggest that a new hospital is to be established in the western region of Singapore. Construction of the hospital, known as Jurong General Hospital, is expected to be completed by 2015.
This is in view of the growth of the eastern housing estates, which is expected to grow substantially in the next 10 years. Building new hospitals will certainly ease the burden on the already overworked Emergency Department of NUH as well as Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
With Singapore’s population expected to rise to 6.5 million in the near future, it is imperative that more hospitals be built in anticipation of the influx of new citizens. Good to know that the Ministry Of Health has already earmarked the north which ‘definitely needed two to three hospitals‘. According to the Health Minister, future sites to be considered include Woodlands and Bukit Batok.
Any plans for a new hospital in the East then Minister? Pretty please?
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