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The Hospitals Regeneration Fund is a key part of my proposed $60 billion plan to rejuvenate the Singapore economy. It will result in an additional 8,500 beds in public hospitals, many times more than the 1,900 hospital beds that the Health Ministry said it would build by 2020. Unless the Ministry plans and builds several times more beds, Singaporeans will continue to experience severe bed crunch for many years to come, even going beyond 2020.
Why has Singapore ended up in this state of neglect? Haven’t we been told ad nauseam that PAP ministers are the most talented and farsighted who can foresee problems far ahead before they surface? While the Cabinet must take collective responsibility, who was the key minister directly responsible for this problem?
Mr Khaw Boon Wan was Health Minister from 2004-2011. In this long period of 7 years, he would or should have realised the problem and could have implemented measures to solve it. But he didn’t or if he did, was not successful. Yet Mr Goh Chok Tong praised him as the “best health minister Singapore has ever had” (IES citation 17 Oct 2008). Obviously Mr Goh’s quality of judgement leaves much to be desired. It also casts doubt on all the other health ministers who preceded Mr Khaw, at least one of whom is still a serving minister in the current Cabinet.
- http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/01/09/2014-begins-with-stark-reminder-of-paps-gross-incompetence/
Why has Singapore ended up in this state of neglect? Haven’t we been told ad nauseam that PAP ministers are the most talented and farsighted who can foresee problems far ahead before they surface? While the Cabinet must take collective responsibility, who was the key minister directly responsible for this problem?
Mr Khaw Boon Wan was Health Minister from 2004-2011. In this long period of 7 years, he would or should have realised the problem and could have implemented measures to solve it. But he didn’t or if he did, was not successful. Yet Mr Goh Chok Tong praised him as the “best health minister Singapore has ever had” (IES citation 17 Oct 2008). Obviously Mr Goh’s quality of judgement leaves much to be desired. It also casts doubt on all the other health ministers who preceded Mr Khaw, at least one of whom is still a serving minister in the current Cabinet.
- http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/01/09/2014-begins-with-stark-reminder-of-paps-gross-incompetence/
