Breakdown of Classes of Wards at Restructured Hospitals

Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song asked the Minister for Health what is the number of beds in A, B1, B2 and C class wards in each of the following hospitals (i) Singapore General Hospital; (ii) National University Hospital; (iii) Tan Tock Seng Hospital; (iv) Changi General Hospital; (v) Alexandra Hospital; (vi) Khoo Teck Puat Hospital; and (vii) KK Women's and Children's Hospital.

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Mr Gan Kim Yong: The number of A, B1, B2 and C class ward beds in SGH, NUH, TTSH, CGH, AH, KTPH and KKH, as at December 2011 are as follows:

Altogether, subsidised beds (B2 and C) make up about three quarters of all acute hospital beds, thus ensuring that there are beds available for lower income Singaporeans. Going forward, MOH will continue to ramp up our acute bed capacity to meet demand due to the growth in the population and in the number of elderly.