All posts tagged "hospitals"
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21.6KHeadlinesNUH and CGH Accused of Grossly Overcharging Patients
National University Hospital and Changi General Hospital have been accused of grossly overcharging patients. In the first incident, Ian Lee said that...
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6.5KHeadlinesCGH Cock-Up: Wrong Medical Report Sent to Deceased’s Wife, Wrong Details on Insurance Report
Changi General Hospital, in its latest cock-up, sent the wrong medical report to the wife of a deceased patient and also filled...
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12.2K1HeadlinesPatient Dies after Doctor Accidentally Cuts Her Ligament, Artery and Vein during Surgery
78-year-old Yuen Ingeborg was undergoing a knee replacement surgery – a fairly common operation for worn-out knees that hundreds of patients undergo...
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6.9K1HeadlinesWoman Asked to Pay S$19,000 Deposit to Move from SGH to Sengkang Community Hospital
2 out of 3 people in Singapore have MediShield Life integrated plans that cover them for private ward stays in community hospitals....
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6.0KHeadlinesSingapore Medical Council Lets Doctor Off the Hook Despite Breach of Duty of Care Court Finding
The Court of Appeal found the doctor who treated the late Noor Azlin Abdul Rahman to have breached his duty of care...
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20.3KHeadlinesScholar Doctor Who Unlawfully Accessed Patient Data Handled with Kid’s Gloves by Singapore Medical Council
The Singapore Medical Council has only recently suspended plastic surgeon Leo Kah Woon for 3 months, after initially giving the doctor a...
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2.9K1HeadlinesChangi General Hospital Accused of More Cases of Unreliability and Misdiagnosis
Changi General Hospital’s reputation has been dragged through the mud following the Court of Appeal’s verdict that negligence on the part of...
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7.6K1HeadlinesChangi General Hospital Found Guilty of Negligence, Leading to Woman Developing Terminal Cancer
Her lung cancer should have been detected at an early stage. But due to negligence by Changi General Hospital and its doctors,...
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3.9KHeadlinesOver 4000 Petition Health Minister Gan Kim Yong Regarding Doctor’s Treatment
Over 4000 people, including doctors and medical professionals, have signed a petition to Health Minister Gan Kim Yong seeking clarification over the...
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3.8KHeadlinesNUH CEO: Treatment Recommendation that Cost S$10,000 More was Down to Doctor’s “Professional Opinion”
CEO of National University Hospital, Eugene Liu, has explained that the difference in the S$19,000 option offered by the hospital for an...
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S$9000 vs S$19,000 for Eye Surgery: Doctor Questions Why NUH Fees are Two Times Higher than SNEC
A doctor has publicly questioned why the fees for a glaucoma operation are two times higher at the National University Hospital than...
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3.9KHeadlinesSengkang General Hospital Nurse Accused of Re-Using Elderly Patient’s Soiled Diaper, Saying It’s “Not Too Dirty”
Sengkang General Hospital, a spanking new facility that just opened last year, got its reputation stained on Christmas Day 2018 following an...
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16.4KHeadlinesHealth Ministry Questioned over 20 Percent of Subsidised Patients Not Receiving Full MediShield Life Cover
The Government Parliamentary Committee for Health is asking the Health Ministry over the revelation that 20 percent of subsidised patients are not...
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6.3KHeadlines“Human Error” Blamed for Non-Sterilised Dental Tools Scare at TTSH, 18 Staff Disciplined
Following investigations, the National Health Group has blamed “human error” for the incident at Tan Tock Seng Hospital where non-sterilised dental tools...