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DATA ON CROSS-BORDER LAND-BASED EMERGENCY AMBULANCE CONVEYANCES

6 November 2025

NOTICE PAPER NO. 251

NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON OR AFTER 6 NOVEMBER 2025


Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr Cai Yinzhou

MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC

 

Question No. 640

To ask the Coordinating Minister for Social Policies and Minister for Health (a) for each year since 2022, what is (i) the total number of land-based medical repatriations of Singapore citizens in critical care from our borders with Malaysia and the (ii) average waiting time for these transfers; and (b) what is the progress update on the implementation of the Foreign Private Ambulance Operators Accreditation scheme.


Answer

1        The Ministry of Health (MOH) does not track cross-border land-based Emergency Ambulance conveyances and the average waiting time for such transfers.

2        MOH is currently working with relevant agencies to assess the feasibility of a potential accreditation scheme for foreign private ambulance operators.

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