[uncle168]

gp is now unaffordable because clinic rental is very high and the gp pass it on to the patient.

the gov should build the polyclinic infrastructure for private gp to practice in for free to leveraging on a central gov phamacy to keep drug cost down.

such facilities would have access to hospital facilities like xray, ct scan, ultrasound to offload the a&e in hospital.

without rental pressure, it would foster a community of private gp whom would earn from consultation fees without having to keep an inventory of drugs which cost more than a gov pharmacy.

healthier sg is doomed to fail as it does not address that the system cannot handle elderly with multiple chronic disease and people with no symptom would rather spend the time visiting gp to work ot for more income.

healthier sg will not help the polyclinic situation.

if you go bedok polyclinic it has many rooms but most of them have no doctors because nobody wants to be a gov doctor as the pay is low and the workload is very high.

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