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09-01-2014, 12:00 PM
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In 2004, Low TK question the sufficiency of hospital bed ...now hospitals overcrowded
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Quote: Responding to queries from Hougang MP Low Thia Khiang, Mr Khaw said this is a local, and not a national problem - and Singapore is not short of hospital beds. But he (Khaw) explained the solution is not as easy as merely opening up more bedste - Parliament 2004 ,In 2004, the hospital building plan was presented for right up to 2012, Low asked if the plan was adequateif adjusted for ppopulation growth as the hospital beds per thousand would decline even as the new capacity would be added slower than the growth in population. Today we see hospitals coping with the overcrowdedness by setting up tents and having the patients treated in tents. Was the population growth so unexpected that the govt was unable to plan to meet the capacity. acute-beds-per-1000-population-sin-oecd.jpg Singapore hospital beds has been way below average of developed countries due to underinvestment by the govt. Adjusted for population growth the situation will be no better in 2020 based on the current hospital build plan. Not only that, the needs will rise as the population age and more will need hospital care. The analogy is our transport woes, as they try to solve the problem by increasing road capacity and public transport capacity, the problem is growing at the same time at a faster rate than they can expand capacity. 2013 saw another year of population growth through import of people. This problem is a growing one and surfaced 10 years ago when Low brought it up in parliament and since that time got steadily worse in subsequent years. Healthcare+stats0001.JPG Data from statistics year book. The number admissions went up and hospital beds went down. One of my friends working in Ministry of Finance revealed to me that the building of the 2 casinos took up so much resources of the construction sector and the cost to escalate that the govt delayed its plans to build hospitals in Yishun and Jurong East That such a trade off was made to bring casino gambling to Singapore instead of caring for the sick is indeed shocking to me. Attached Images
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