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11 May 2021 12:00AM) Share this content
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SINGAPORE: Workers’ Party MP Gerald Giam called for fee benchmarks for medical procedures, an expanded panel of doctors and itemised hospital bills in an adjournment motion in Parliament on Monday (May 10).
“The central theme of my speech today is to ensure that patients’ interests are protected within our healthcare system,” he said, adding that the Workers’ Party consulted insurers, hospital administrators, insurance agents, doctors in both private and public practice and constituents on the matter.
This is based on the ministry s inspection thus far, said an MOH spokesman.
The private hospital in Adam Road, which specialises in cancer treatment, was enlisted by MOH to care for Covid-19 patients who were clinically well but tested positive for the virus from March to September.
On Saturday, MOH said it had ordered CIH to temporarily stop providing all healthcare services from Dec 19, after it found several significant breaches of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act during inspections. Multiple life-saving equipment and medications were either not maintained or not available in critical areas of the hospital such as the intensive care unit and the operating theatre, said MOH.