Feasibility of Hospital-provided Accommodation at Concessionary Rates for Healthare Workers
5 July 2023
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NOTICE PAPER NO. 1989
NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 5 JULY 2023
Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Dr Tan Wu Meng
MP for Jurong GRC
Question No. 3052
To ask the Minister for Health whether the Ministry has studied the feasibility of hospital-provided accommodation at concessionary rates, as part of supporting healthcare workers who cannot easily afford their own accommodation but wish to stay near the hospital workplace, including for what may be operational or operational-related reasons.
Answer
1 Healthcare workers in the public healthcare clusters have the flexibility to source for their preferred accommodation and live within the community. The public healthcare clusters provide their foreign healthcare workers with a housing allowance to help defray their accommodation expenses.
2 MOH Holdings has been studying the feasibility of facilitating hostel-type accommodation to support new foreign healthcare workers when they first arrive in Singapore, before transiting to housing options available in the market after they have had some time to settle in.