Singapore’s Ministry of Health has officially broken ground on a new medical facility in the east of Singapore.
Located next to the city center line of Bedok North MRT station, Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus including Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient and outpatient care services, as well as continuing care and rehabilitation services. Once completed, it is expected to have about 1,400 beds.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
During the groundbreaking ceremony, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung revealed that the EGH facility will be “digitally enabled from the start”, especially providing telemedicine services.
“For example, during teleconsultations, physicians can verbally ask whether patients are keeping up with their rehabilitation.”[ilitation] exercise. Patients will always say yes but you can’t verify it. The EGH team is working on developing wearable sensors that can remotely monitor the frequency and accuracy of prescribed exercises. That will make telephone consultation more effective,” the Minister shared.
With the adoption of telemedicine, EGH will provide virtual services ahead of its 2030 opening target; Minister Ong revealed they plan to operate virtual wards around 2026 to support the already overburdened Changi General Hospital (CGH). The EGH team will initially be housed at the CGH, where they can consult remotely, conduct remote monitoring, and travel into the community and into patients’ homes to provide care.
The EGH facility will also use a computer-automated Virtual Environment to provide visitors with virtual guidance.
Additionally, testing is underway for digital twin technology and ambient intelligence in areas while the use of exosuits and AI-powered remote recovery solutions is underway. be discovered.
THE TREND IS GREATER
The Ministry of Health first launched plans to build an integrated hospital in eastern Singapore amid the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020.
Minister Ong boasted that EGH will be a “more pandemic-ready hospital”, designed to have wards that can be quickly converted to isolation use and with flexibility to support working arrangements replacement without making major changes to the hospital infrastructure.
Operated by SingHealth, the EGH facility will also be able to tap into the specialist support of the healthcare network, in partnership with the National Cancer Center Singapore, National Dental Center Singapore, Heart Center Singapore National Circuit, National Neuroscience Institute and National Neuroscience Institute Singapore. Eye center.
