Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Outram Community Hospital was first announced by Minister for Health Mr Gan Kim Yong as part of the Healthcare 2020 plan during the Committee of Supply (COS) speech in 2012, which aims to increase the number of hospital beds by 3,700 around Singapore by 2020, of which 1,800 will be Community Hospital beds.
Singapore is rapidly building bed space for coronavirus patients in cavernous exhibition halls and other temporary facilities as it faces a surge in cases, mainly among its large community of low ...
Mental health in Singapore has its roots in the West. The first medical personnel in the field were mostly from Britain. The first medical personnel in the field were mostly from Britain. Medical education in the early years was almost exclusively for the British, until the establishment of King Edward VII College of Medicine on the island in 1907.
In 2005, there were only 17 Green Mark building projects in Singapore. [9] In 2009, BCA launched South-East Asia's first zero-energy building (ZEB) located at the BCA Academy of the Built Environment. The ZEB was retrofitted from an existing building and serves as a test-bedding centre for green building technologies. [10]
Bloomberg ranked Singapore's healthcare system the most efficient in the world in 2014. [2] The Economist Intelligence Unit placed Singapore 2nd out of 166 countries for health-care outcomes. [3] Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries ranked Singapore the 4th healthiest country in the world and first in Asia. [4]
“Singapore’s Housing Development Board increases supply slowly and steadily over time, so that everyone has a place to live, and so that housing—at least, theoretically—earns a modest but ...
Beds Staff Outram Community Hospital: 2019 Bukit Merah: Public 550 [18] 350 [3] Sengkang Community Hospital: 2018 Sengkang: 400 [19] 407 [3] Woodlands Health Campus: 2023 Woodlands: Public (National Healthcare Group) Yishun Community Hospital: 2015 Yishun: 224 [20] Jurong Community Hospital: 2015 Jurong East: Public (National University Health ...
The pocketed coil is the basis for the Simmons Beautyrest mattress brand, which was introduced in 1925. [6] Although the new manufacturing technology greatly reduced its cost, at the time of its introduction a Beautyrest mattress sold for $39.50, three to four times more than the typical price for a standard wire mattress. [7]