SINGAPORE: More than 10,000 beds will be added in acute hospitals, community hospitals and nursing homes in the next five years, even as more efforts will be made to encourage Singaporeans to visit their family doctor as the first stop of care, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said.
Between 2015 and 2020, another 7,000 places will also be added to community care, home care and palliative home care, Mr Gan said in response to President Tony Tan Keng Yam’s call to foster a caring society, outlined in his opening address in Parliament last Friday…