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Notice how the Old Dud runs SG based on his own whim and fancy - only if it favours his family. When his grand duds fail CL2, he can go as far as discarding this as a hard requirement for application for the PeeAssC overseas scholarships. Now that he is about die, he starts to see the need for more docs to help look for that elusive elixir to prolong his life like Emperor Qin!
[h=2]Lee Kuan Yew: We need more doctors in Singapore[/h]Posted by temasektimes on May 13, 2012
Singapore will need more doctors to take care of its aging population in the future, said former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew last night.
Mr Lee was speaking at the 53rd Anniversary Dinner of the Singapore Medical Association where he was conferred an Honorary Membership.
“We have ten thousand doctors here. We shall need more with an ageing population. Out of the ten thousand, two thousand are foreigners so they neither speak dialects nor the languages that some of our older patients speak, like malay,” Mr Lee said.
An increasing number of foreign doctors have found work in Singapore in recent years, many of whom are employed by the public service in polyclinics and hospitals.
Singapore has one medical school at NUS currently and all its graduates are bonded by the Ministry of Health for five years after which many go on into private practice.
Mr Lee added that Singapore needs to cast its net wide to recruit Singaporean students who have gone abroad to study medicine:
“But this is part of a transition. We are producing 250 doctors a year. It will not be enough. So we would have to keep on recruiting from the many students who have not got into our medical school and have gone abroad.”
[h=2]Lee Kuan Yew: We need more doctors in Singapore[/h]Posted by temasektimes on May 13, 2012
Singapore will need more doctors to take care of its aging population in the future, said former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew last night.Mr Lee was speaking at the 53rd Anniversary Dinner of the Singapore Medical Association where he was conferred an Honorary Membership.
“We have ten thousand doctors here. We shall need more with an ageing population. Out of the ten thousand, two thousand are foreigners so they neither speak dialects nor the languages that some of our older patients speak, like malay,” Mr Lee said.
An increasing number of foreign doctors have found work in Singapore in recent years, many of whom are employed by the public service in polyclinics and hospitals.
Singapore has one medical school at NUS currently and all its graduates are bonded by the Ministry of Health for five years after which many go on into private practice.
Mr Lee added that Singapore needs to cast its net wide to recruit Singaporean students who have gone abroad to study medicine:
“But this is part of a transition. We are producing 250 doctors a year. It will not be enough. So we would have to keep on recruiting from the many students who have not got into our medical school and have gone abroad.”
