Hospitals.SG

13 December 2006

Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) will reduce medical subsidies for non-citizens at public hospitals and national medical centres starting next year. The medical services affected are :

• inpatient services,
• day surgery, and
• specialist outpatient clinics (SOCs)

Emergency services at hospital emergency departments will be excluded from the changes.

In a pilot project by the Health Ministry to bring specialist healthcare services to the community, the new Jurong Medical Centre (JMC) at Jurong West Central 3 was officially opened on Sunday, 15 October 2006.

Costing $22 million, the new centre comes with advanced day surgery equipment, endoscopy services, a chronic disease management centre, x-ray facilities, dental care and eye care services (including cataract surgery).

25 Aug 2006

From 1 December 2006, the day surgery claim limit for the non-surgical component is raised to $200. Here is the abstract of the news release.

In April this year, the Ministry of Health (MOH) raised the daily Medisave inpatient claim limit from $300 to $400. With medical innovation, some previously inpatient-based treatments can now be safely delivered as day surgeries.

The Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) currently allows the online submission of visa applications for visiting Singapore, via the SAVE^#1 system, through authorised travel agents in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. It also allows individuals in China and Singapore to do so online.