PAPee: LOW PRIORITY for Hospitals!

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>New hospital in east can ease baby boomer crush
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Construction of Jurong hospital will also speed up as costs have fallen </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Tan Dawn Wei
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Another hospital in the east will need to be developed in about 10 years' time when the baby boomers cross into their 70s.
This will ease the burden on Changi General Hospital (CGH), whose emergency department is one of the busiest, possibly because of an overflow of patients from other hospitals, said Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday.
He reiterated this need for an additional hospital at the National Heart Centre's 10th anniversary celebrations, a day after he spoke about it at a nursing awards ceremony.
'What we should try to avoid is another hospital becoming like Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in five to eight years' time,' he told reporters.
TTSH has the busiest emergency department here.
The opening of the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Yishun in 2010 may take some pressure off TTSH and, in turn, relieve CGH of its overflow problem.
Even so, with Pasir Ris, Punggol and Sengkang growing in the next 10 years, CGH will not be able to cope with the number of residents in these areas.
While the new hospital is still being considered, construction of Jurong General Hospital, originally scheduled to be completed in 2015, will speed up now that construction costs have fallen, said Mr Khaw.
Other medical facilities - the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and the new Singapore General Hospital Pathology building in College Road - are also expected to open next year and in 2011 respectively.
'These projects are our commitment to building capacity and raising capabilities. These are long-term commitments. The economic downturn will not stop us,' he said.
The slowdown has given rise to other opportunities too, said the minister, like making a mid-career switch to the medical sector. There is a demand for people to fill nursing roles. He said the Government will ramp up recruitment and train more staff during this period.
He also told Singaporeans not to worry about health-care costs in these gloomy times. Most people have sufficient savings in their Medisave - now at a total of $40 billion and growing at $2 billion a year. 'These are giant umbrellas for the rainy days,' he said.
Medisave and endowment funds for the poor and the elderly, Medifund and Eldercare Fund have a combined reserve exceeding $42 billion.
This is 14 times Singapore's annual operating health expenditure of about $3 billion, said Mr Khaw. [email protected]

 

[chinkangkor]

Now it's the time of the year in which bird flu and SARS thrive. Let's pray hard that this winter season will be an uneventful one.

Otherwise, it will be catastrophic for everyone. The world has full of problems to cope with going forward into 2009.

 

[Leegimeremover]

It is time for the PAP to stop deluding themselves. Unless they start ensuring access to higher food and water safety standards as a means of preventive medicine, the medisave cannot possibly hope to be enough. 3 billion dollars divided by 3 million persons for convenience gives you only 1000 dollars per capita. 13 times more is 13,000 dollars. Since it is a dependence on personal savings to receive medical care, and the measly sum of 3 billion goes more to pay infrastructural and personnel expenses rather than subsidize patients, the lack of welfare redistribution, ensures a you fall sick your business uncaring system. Teach you how to fish cockamaniac rubbish is actually a you die your business mentality of the PAP. Falling sick can sometimes be a case of luck of the draw. If you look at the amount money that the Lee family has spent on medical care themselves, they should have been dead many times as a normal person. If their averaged model of 14,000 dollars for healthcare is deemed enough, then do not assigned obscene taxpayer money budgets to the healthcare benefits for MPs. No MP is an immortal and no MP is unexpendable. Even Toh Chin Chye has left the parliament but some senile has failed to do so, has to crown himself a corrupt and obscene position of MM and feeds off taxpayers' money to stay alive, go on public paid overseas trips and gamble away Singaporeans' money. This is an obscene fact. Social capital is very important but LKY chooses to import immigrants rather than cherish the most import resource of Singapore. If senile thinks he is master of the universe, he should export himself to PRC and be a leader there. I am sure Hu can arrange something for him and PRC is going to get screwed in this crisis and needs saving. Singapore is automatically saved without senile.

 

[theblackhole]

work out your own salvation and look after your own health. u die your business.