Foreign visitors make up less than 2% of inpatient admissions over last 5 years
Foreign visitors made up less than two per cent of inpatient admissions from 2007 to 2011.
A patient rests on a hospital bed
SINGAPORE: Foreign visitors made up less than two per cent of inpatient admissions from 2007 to 2011.
They also made up less than three per cent of the day surgery load in public hospitals during the same period.
In his written reply to parliament, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said the primary responsibility of public hospitals is to provide good and affordable care for Singaporeans.
MP Baey Yam Keng had also asked the price differentiation between fees paid by a foreign patient and a local non-subsidised patient.
Mr Gan said Singaporeans enjoy heavy subsidies up to 80 per cent in the subsidised wards.
Foreign patients, however, do not enjoy any health care subsidy for inpatient treatment regardless of the ward class they are in.
They may also pay up to 30 per cent more than the unsubsidised rates for local private patients.
