http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com/2010/03/sorry-no-enough-minister-khaw.html

Maybe the new Ng Teng Fong Hospital will help alleviate the problem. 

1) the number of hospital beds per 10,000 population
2) the number of doctors per 1,000 population
3) the number of nurses per 1,000 population

currently most A&E Departments are centrally located at the central locations of the island and the catchment areas are not evenly distributed thus it jam up the A&E Departments.

Currently, we do not know the standards, the authority failed to inform us or even no such standards
The authority must set a standard based on world standard as the performance indicator.

We need more hospitals for the northern and eastern sectors to meet with the higher dense population demands and also to fulfill the ambulance response time for critical accidents,so as to ease the heavy workload for the A&E Departments.

I hope your return to sg will provide some relieve to our overly stressed health care system. As a health care worker your inputs and contributions are of great importance and if u see that something is done wrongly of the system, i truly hope people like you can voice out and be firm in your stand. I do hope singaporeans help singaporeans if not we are doom as this gahmen only help if it doest cost money to them. After all we singaporeans are not asking for world class medical treatment but good enough medical care at affordable prices. I am disappointed a rich gahmen we have cant even provide the free medical care to the very poor and everything cost so much for the middle class singaporeans. Where are we heading > Japan ‘s standard of living then we are all facing trouble times ahead and it could well happen in a few years or so.

I sigh cos i read the postings and feel that everyone is just angry and quick to put a blanket blame on the hospital/the govt; and that is not the answer to the problem at all.

I sigh because that is even more counterproductive to solving the problem; and the reason i write so much is to share my (?insider) perspective that this is everybody’s problem and everyone is part of the problem AND the solution.

I am definitely patriotic but patriotism to Singapore does not equate blind support for the PAP govt.

There are problems with our govt, which is why i am sorry but i can never say my real name (By my employment policy i am not even supposed to express an opinion about health care without approval from our public relations office! So you can write to the forum pages about what you feel about hosp/doctors/nurses etc, i can’t…or at least i can’t say what i really think).

I don’t think we are truly democratic and i certainly fear the repercussions of opposing the authorities, but let’s not say everything they do is bad, just like not everything they do is good!

At the end of the day, all my spew is not about supporting the govt but trying to be “fair”.

And of course you should not trust me or anyone else completely! But be open-minded, think about it, and check it out on your own…

I am on govt scholarship of some sort but the taxpayers money allocated to me is inadequate and i have to “tampa” with my own money.I am also bonded for more years and for more money than the scholarship is worth…so if your concern is that i am wasting taxpayer’s money, i can say with full conscience i am not.

Thanks patriot for your comments. I am not great, or I am only as great as any other typical singaporean; who despite not having anything, put our little red dot on the world stage. And i am also as ugly as the next singaporean who gorges at buffets and litter in JB.

Why do you call yourself “Sigh”? You gave me the impression that
you are very positive and patriotic, so why must you sigh?

Are you in the US on Singapore Govt’s scholarship, using
taxpayers’ money, or are you using your father’s money?

And why must we trust you? We don’t even know who you are!

You are right that our healthcare system is not efficient and it should be since we are small and everything else is.

And there is definitely a lack of foresight/failure of planning with regards to healthcare where our govt. is concerned, but my point in this whole thing is that WE ALL have an important part to play, not just the govt.

And everyone – govt, medical community, patients/singaporeans should think hard about what we, as an individual, can do to improve things…then work with the other parties to make it work…

Anyway i am in the US to train and i will definitely be back in Singapore to serve….trust me, there is NO better place on earth than singapore.

How to compare a big nation to a small fry nation when health care is used as a benchmark? New York vs Singapore? Small nation can be more efficient than big one. Is our health care system now being efficient? I seriously doubt so. With so many foreigners coming ashore and rich tourist patients occupying our beds, and growing aging problems and SARS, Dengue and HFMD always around the corner are our health care system able to take the shock? When the gov open doors to many more foreigners have they ponder and think that all these visitors(are they superman cannot fall sick is it?) will need to see doc someday? Why the whole planning is not done ahead…building more medical care facilities, staffs and hospitals to address the shortcomings. Million dollars pay ministers are short sighted…their mouth talks big about long term but they are really not that smart as you think. Now they talk about Jurong redevelopment….guys think about punggol and sengkang 10 years ago when holy goh brag about it. Nowadays talk is so cheap especially coming from million dollars minister.

This health care issue is going to get worst not better and who suffers? US. What to do? It has happen already! mentality of the GOV will not stopped. Why “Sigh” works overseas and not in Singapore? Too Stressful or too much compeition with the foreign talents? Isnt it better to work in your own country?(since it is so superior to US system). Here our system corrupts and become complacent that must be the reason. or maybe other reasons we might not know. But i can sense that the grass at our own backyard is not greener. A socialise system breeds elites who are crap leaders but a democratic system make good ones.

Time to ponder again for singaporeans vote them out and save millions of tax payer monies. Are they worth every cent?

fever

(1) When you go to a doctor (say GP or polyclinic) for a cold (just to get mc and some meds) or follow up an exisiting problem (eg diabetes), what quickly do you expect to bee seen?

(2) If your family member started vomiting in the middle of the night (and is otherwise OK, conscious and talking) and you suspect it is food poisoning, do you (a) go straight to A&E (cos GPs are closed) (b) wait to see GP the next day cos this is neither accident nor emergency (A&E)

(3) If your GP think the blood in your stools can be cancer and he wants you to see a specialist, how quickly do you think you should be seen?

(4) Relating to (3), how quickly do you think cancer grow/spread?

(5) If you have a breast lump and you are young and at low risk of cancer, and your GP has told you it is unlikely to be cancer, would you still want to see a specialist?

(6) Which is worse about waiting in a hospital?
(a) The “wasting” of time? You could be working/shopping/sleeping..
(b) The uncertainty of what’s happening? The fact that nobody is telling you what is happening

Just interested to see what people think…