New public hospital to be built in Tengah in coming decade

More manpower and thousands more hospital beds are set to be injected into the healthcare sector as Singapore expands its capacity to meet the needs of a rapidly ageing population. Singapore has more than 11,000 hospital beds in the public healthcare system today. The Health Ministry hopes to add some 4,000 more over the next six years. To meet growing needs in the developing Western region, there are plans to open a new public hospital in Tengah in the coming decade. This will boost the number of public acute hospitals in Singapore to 13. Sherlyn Seah reports.