PAYA LEBAR CONSTITUENCY (Building of clinic)

Mr Tay Boon Too asked the Minister for Health whether he has any plans to build a clinic in the densely populated part of the Paya Lebar Constituency.

The Minister for Health (Mr Chua Sian Chin): Mr Speaker, Sir, the Paya Lebar Constituency does not have an outpatient dispensary within its boundaries. But there are dispensaries just outside these boundaries, namely, the Paya Lebar Outpatient Dispensary at the junction of Paya Lebar Road and Yio Chu Kang Road; Lim Ah Pin Outpatient Dispensary which is further up on Upper Serangoon Road from the Paya Lebar Clinic; MacPherson Road Outpatient Dispensary at Pesiaran Keliling in the MacPherson Housing Estate, just off Paya Lebar Road.

There are no immediate plans to build a new dispensary for the Paya Lebar Constituency. Development plans for resiting Paya Lebar Outpatient Dispensary will have to be made should it be demolished to make way for road development. The alternative site has not been chosen. This will be determined by consultations with the Commissioner of Lands. It could well happen that the site chosen may be within the Paya Lebar Constituency.