Singapore’s primary care facilities will be ramped up and more polyclinics will be developed.
Two new polyclinics will be built in Pioneer and Punggol by 2017.
Pioneer polyclinic will be located next to Jurong West Primary School (pictured), and Punggol polyclinic will be located outside Oasis LRT station.
“Residents in these areas can look forward to these new healthcare facilities, which will also help manage the patients’ chronic diseases. The new polyclinics will offer a wider range of allied health services than that offered at existing polyclinics, including physiotherapy and podiatry,” Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong said.
In addition, the polyclinics in Ang Mo Kio and Bedok will be redeveloped and four more new polyclinics will be built by 2020.
Mr Gan announced this at the Groundbuilding Ceremony for Changi General Hospital (CGH) Medical Centre on 29 August 2014.
The new nine-storey Medical Centre, which will cost $220 million according to media reports, will include minor surgery rooms which will help to free up capacity of operating theatres in the acute hospital for more complex procedures.
There will be a dedicated CGH Training Wing within the Medical Centre, to further enhance CGH’s teaching and training capabilities for doctors, nurses, allied health and other healthcare professionals to grow the healthcare workforce for the future.
“When the Medical Centre is fully operational, CGH will continue to improve and expand its existing acute medical facilities through the remodelling of the CGH Main Building, which has started since 2011. Together with the Integrated Building that will be opening progressively from the end of this year, the CGH Medical Centre and remodelling of the main building will significantly enhance CGH’s capability and capacity to meet the needs of the population in the eastern region,” Mr Gan said at the ceremony.
Image by Ministry of Health
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