Arrangements for Private Hospitals to Step In When Public Hospitals Reach Capacity Limit

29 Ms Joan Pereira asked the Minister for Health whether the Ministry is working with private hospitals to ensure that these hospitals can step in to provide care to patients once our public hospitals reach a certain capacity limit and, if so, how.

Mr Ong Ye Kung: This question will be further addressed together with other similar Parliamentary Questions on 8 November 2022. [Please refer to "Long Waiting Times at Accident and Emergency Departments of Restructured Hospitals", Official Report, 08 November 2022, Vol 95, Issue 74, Oral Answers to Questions section.]