All posts tagged "health"
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1.0KHeadlinesSingHealth Actively Pursued Medical Tourists Despite Severe Bed Crunch
Medical tourism should not come at the expense of Singapore citizens. Unfortunately, it seems that SingHealth didn’t get the message. Despite acute...
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4.0KHeadlinesSingHealth Cyber Attack: How Negligence and Bo Chup-ness Compromised Singaporeans’ Safety
What to make of the SingHealth cyber attack that saw the personal data of 1.5 million users hacked? A tale of negligence,...
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1.9KHeadlinesWoman Dies After Drinking Fruit Juice to Treat Painful Gout Condition
28-year-old Titinlismawati suffered from a gout condition which caused pain in her legs. About 6 months ago, she began drinking a fruit...
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7.7KHeadlinesGovernment IT System Screw-Up Leads to 400 Patients Receiving Wrongly Labelled Medicine
A screw-up with the GPConnect computer system over the weekend resulted in about 400 patients across 83 general practise clinics receiving wrongly...
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2.5KHeadlinesResearch Reports: Hospital Beds are Insufficient to Meet Demands of Singapore’s Growing Population
Three separate organisations have come up with research reports stating that public hospital facilities are insufficient to keep with with Singapore’s population...
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2.3KHeadlinesSeverely Disabled Seniors Denied Payouts: Doubts Cast on Intentions of ElderShield and CareShield Life Schemes
Doubts have been cast over the intentions of ElderShield and its upcoming replacement, the compulsory CareShield Life scheme, as a disability insurance...
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4.3KCow Beh Cow BuCareShield Life: Mixed Information, Dodgy Benefits, and the Perceived Foolishness of Singaporeans
ELSON: Health Minister Gan Kim Yong made 2 points in parliament yesterday – one, that you shouldn’t be surprised by the “1...
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1.1KHeadlinesNumber of Young Singaporeans Seeking Mental Health Treatment Jumps by 190 Percent
The number of young Singaporeans (16 to 30 years old) seeking mental health treatment has risen by 190 percent from 2015. The...
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1.2K2Cow Beh Cow BuCareShield Life: Singaporeans More Prone to be “Severely Disabled” than People from Other Developed Nations?
ELSON: This is what was published in the Straits Times in 2016 on the prevalence of persons in Singapore with disabilities: “The...
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7.4K1HeadlinesHealth Ministry Rejects Overseas Singaporean’s Request to Use Medisave for Hospital Bill
He has S$37,000 in his Medisave account, but Mr Mokhtar bin Rahmat can’t use any of that to pay for his wife’s...
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1.6KCow Beh Cow BuCareShield Life: Government has Failed to Justify Billions in Premiums Collected to Date
ELSON: 11 years, S$3.3 billion collected, and S$133 million paid out – that’s ElderShield for you. Launched in 2007, you’ve to wonder...
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3.3KHeadlinesEx-Policewoman Killed by Pet Hamster
A 38-year-old former policewoman has died after she was bitten by her pet hamster. Last week, Mdm Tan had been separating 2...
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7.3KHeadlinesCouple Cries for Help after Maid Slip-Up Leaves Infant Stuck in Locked Car at Holland Village
A couple in their 30s who reportedly went to test drive a new car discovered to their horror that their 3-month-old infant...
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2.8KHeadlinesNational Serviceman Voluntarily Attends 50 IPT Session on Average per Year out of “Curiosity”
NS Corporal Chris Shek is someone we would say “Chill bro” to (and then blanket party him because he spoil market). Why?...
