[[[ForeverAlone]]]

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/m...re-workers

[Oyk]

Recent rent hikes driven by GREED more than economics have eaten into their salaries.

A lot of sinkies are plain hypocrites. They scream "FT! FTs steal Singaporeans' jobs" to try to bring down the government but quietly, they are enjoying the obscene rent they collect from these very FTs every month.

[Oyk]

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/m...re-workers

The above look like nursing students rather than nurses.

[[[ForeverAlone]]]

Recent rent hikes driven by GREED more than economics have eaten into their salaries.

A lot of sinkies are plain hypocrites. They scream "FT! FTs steal Singaporeans' jobs" to try to bring down the government but quietly, they are enjoying the obscene rent they collect from these very FTs every month.

This will make some HDB owners who want to rent out their flat to foreigner workers get a bit piss off.
One thing Good for these foreigner nurse is they will save more money no need to Pay HIGH rental to those Greedy HDB owners who rent high.

[Oyk]

This will make some HDB owners who want to rent out their flat to foreigner workers get a bit piss off.
One thing Good for these foreigner nurse is they will save more money no need to Pay HIGH rental to those Greedy HDB owners who rent high.

Pissed off?

Without affordable accommodation, these nurse would leave.  Many Malaysian nurses have left...went back to Malaysia because the rooms here are too expensive now. After deducting rent, their net salary is lowere than what they would earn in Malaysia where they simply go back to their own house there.  So what is the point of working here anymore?

If the government does not do anything about this, the landlords can piss off all they want when their tenants still leave, but the rest of Singapore will be PISSED off with these fucking landlords, when they go to a horsepeter, and there are no nurses!

Right now, the majority of the nurses are from the Philippines and Myanmar who speak only English....oh yes, if you want they can speak Tagalog or Burmese with you.  

Do you realise how hard it is for ah gong and ah ma when hardly any nurse can speak Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew...even our own local nurses cannot speak these dialects anymore.  The only Chinese dialect they can speak is Mandarin, and fortunately some of these elderly people can still understand it.

Nurses from Malaysia are a big asset to our healthcare institutions because they can speak other Chinese dialects beside the Mandarin dialect, and they can directly speak to the elderly patients, or else, help the nurses (and doctors) from Philippines, Myanmar and yes...AND Singapore to translate what is being said to English.

[starbugs]

They are many HDB enbloced sites sitting empty for years before they are demolished, e.g. Tanglin Halt. Those flats with.good reno can be refurbished as hostels. Use for three years also good.

[Oyk]

Pissed off?

Without affordable accommodation, these nurse would leave.  Many Malaysian nurses have left...went back to Malaysia because the rooms here are too expensive now. After deducting rent, their net salary is lowere than what they would earn in Malaysia where they simply go back to their own house there.  So what is the point of working here anymore?

If the government does not do anything about this, the landlords can piss off all they want when their tenants still leave, but the rest of Singapore will be PISSED off with these fucking landlords, when they go to a horsepeter, and there are no nurses!

Right now, the majority of the nurses are from the Philippines and Myanmar who speak only English....oh yes, if you want they can speak Tagalog or Burmese with you.  

Do you realise how hard it is for ah gong and ah ma when hardly any nurse can speak Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew...even our own local nurses cannot speak these dialects anymore.  The only Chinese dialect they can speak is Mandarin, and fortunately some of these elderly people can still understand it.

Nurses from Malaysia are a big asset to our healthcare institutions because they can speak other Chinese dialects beside the Mandarin dialect, and they can directly speak to the elderly patients, or else, help the nurses (and doctors) from Philippines, Myanmar and yes...AND Singapore to translate what is being said to English.

....and what is being said in English to Cantonese, Hokkien and Teochew.

[[[ForeverAlone]]]

Pissed off?

Without affordable accommodation, these nurse would leave.  Many Malaysian nurses have left...went back to Malaysia because the rooms here are too expensive now. After deducting rent, their net salary is lowere than what they would earn in Malaysia where they simply go back to their own house there.  So what is the point of working here anymore?

If the government does not do anything about this, the landlords can piss off all they want when their tenants still leave, but the rest of Singapore will be PISSED off with these fucking landlords, when they go to a horsepeter, and there are no nurses!

Right now, the majority of the nurses are from the Philippines and Myanmar who speak only English....oh yes, if you want they can speak Tagalog or Burmese with you.  

Do you realise how hard it is for ah gong and ah ma when hardly any nurse can speak Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew...even our own local nurses cannot speak these dialects anymore.  The only Chinese dialect they can speak is Mandarin, and fortunately some of these elderly people can still understand it.

Nurses from Malaysia are a big asset to our healthcare institutions because they can speak other Chinese dialects beside the Mandarin dialect, and they can directly speak to the elderly patients, or else, help the nurses (and doctors) from Philippines, Myanmar and yes...AND Singapore to translate what is being said to English.

This is WHY I mention , they now stay in places PROVIDE BY GOVT MOH thus Cheap than renting from Those greedy landlord rent high for their HDB rooms.

Recently one Private Hospital provide Free shuttle bus for Malaysian Nurse come and back in between SG and JB.
Got quite a lot Malaysian Nurse feel happy because now they can no need say wake up dam early depend their shift and can stay in JB more cheaper than staying in SG.

[Oyk]

A nurse is not someone who is ONLY there to change your bandages, change diapers for you, feed you via NGT, get you your medicine, help you take it, or apply it.

A nurse's presence is very reassuring. A nurse who works from the heart does not merely do the above but speaks to the patients, answers their questions/worries, she or he is very comforting. Curry nah! Do you know it's practically impossible for a nurse from the Philippines or Myanmar to perform this role?

So many peepur died in a horsepeter without their loved ones around. Only the nurses were there who could not speak the language the patients could understand...

[forum456]

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/m...re-workers

PAP always says housing is affordable.
if singaporean cannot afford to buy, they can afford to rent.

why suddenly the housing is not affordable when foreigners want to live here.

how can the same housing is affordable to singaporeans but not affordable for foreigners ?

can a singaporean nurse apply to live in the same hostel type lodging to save money like the foreigners ?

[Observer]

Recent rent hikes driven by GREED more than economics have eaten into their salaries.

A lot of sinkies are plain hypocrites. They scream "FT!  FTs steal Singaporeans' jobs" to try to bring down the government but quietly, they are enjoying the obscene rent they collect from these very FTs every month.

Luckily they did not increase the rent in Geylang otherwise my daughter will have to fark longer

[[[ForeverAlone]]]

PAP always says housing is affordable.
if singaporean cannot afford to buy, they can afford to rent.

why suddenly the housing is not affordable when foreigners want to live here.

how can the same housing is affordable to singaporeans but not affordable for foreigners ?

can a singaporean nurse apply to live in the same hostel type lodging to save money like the foreigners ?

is " affordable " IF You are civil servant as yearly mid and year end bonus surely come in + yearly increment and no fear of been so call " retrench " du e to Global economics not doing well.

BUT if you are not , is daily worry on the housing loans.
This is why some BTO flats no body stay partly they got it from ballot managed to pay at first later who knows been retrench etc , find a new job but can't substain longer due to new wages so give up holding it.

[Wy:Nox]

The old PaP system by the Old Guards is coming back from the 60s.

[Huliwang]

Nurse stays in hostel lodging? Hope they are not like those foreign workers' hostels.   

[sgxin]

The old PaP system by the Old Guards is coming back from the 60s.

Don't think it was the old PAP system. 
The building of staff housing quarters onsite or nearby was a British practice, for sea port, Tg Pagar railway station and the hospitals.
PAP totally stopped this system one or 2 decades after independence.

A partial map of SGH in 1942 during WW2:


https://remembersingapore.org/2015/04/12...-memorial/

[singlon]

really going all out to make sure we require such services
You stay sick ok?
Silat rg area those people and their descendents r still around

[WhatDoYouThink!]

Knn, even hospital they aso bombed? Really beasts. Ermaos agree or not?

[Wy:Nox]

Don't think it was the old PAP system. 
The building of staff housing quarters onsite or nearby was a British practice, for sea port, Tg Pagar railway station and the hospitals.
PAP totally stopped this system one or 2 decades after independence.

A partial map of SGH in 1942 during WW2:

The nurses working in SGH in the 60s were living in the hostels because they had to work shifts and overtime. 

I think this is a good idea for Foreign nurses for certain Departments like A& E so that they can save on Transport fares.