Spore-Med

Why Patient Choose Singapore

SINGAPORE, who is not familiar with, including healthcare facilities. It was no secret if a patient from Indonesia, especially those from the rich and famous people, often chose the island state as a destination for quality healthcare services.

Though already well known, turned out they never stop to socialize, pick up the ball here and there, in earnest and heartfelt. Indonesia is one of the potential market that continues their seeis. So, when in Medan, 25-27 May 2007 and implemented International Medical Expo, Singapore hospitals took part.


They come with a solid team under the Singapore Medicine, a government agency under the auspices of multiple Economic Development Board, Singapore Tourism Board and International Enterprise Singapore.

’’SingaporeMedicine was specifically aimed at developing and promoting Singapore as a medical center in Asia, and to make health services world-class Singapore easily accessible to international patients,’’said Iesyen Wijaya, Indonesia Western Executive-International Operations, Singapore Tourism Board told reporters in Medan.

Already have a name, and was also heavily promote, making Singapore is increasingly recognized as a leading health service centers in Asia Pacific. So, every year more than 300 thousand international patients come to the island country to obtain a variety of health services.

There are just a health check, or eye surgery, heart and brain surgery, there are also there for cancer treatment. In 2005 alone, a total of 374 thousand people from around the world come there to get quality healthcare.

Special expo in Medan was the fourth time that they follow, Singapore includes some well-known hospital groups, such as the Parkway Group Healthcare (Gleneagles Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Hospital and East Shore Hospital), National Healthcare Group (Alexandra Hospital, National University Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital), Raffles Hospital, Thomson Medical Center, and The West Clinic Execellence Cancer Centre.

Thomson, for Women and Children

Fenny Ng, Assistant Manager Marketing, Thomson Medical Center, claiming they are the best for the health services of women and children. Special patients from Indonesia, said Fenny, generally related services wanted fertility problems and IVF, to the problem of youth therapy and aesthetic.

Described, in dealing with partners from outside Singapore, the fertility expert there has worked with doctors who used to deal with them in their home countries.

Such collaboration. Initially, the patient is evaluated thoroughly for doctor referrals, and can return to the doctor who will follow up program in the country of origin. The patient then returned to Singapore to undergo the final stage of the program, before returning to his country.

Practical, within two months of fertility treatment, patients only need to be in Singapore for two weeks at least to the final stage, with one or two visits in the early stages.

Fenny also told that 70 per cent of international patients who come to Thomson Medical Center came from Indonesia. ''In general, the most dominant related problems fertility and youth therapy,''said Fenny, who firmly stated that the main cause of infertility in Indonesia - from consulting patients who come - is smoking!

Raffles Hospital, One Stop Specialist

Another explanation Puteri Suman, Assistant Marketing Manager-International Hospital Raffles Hospital. In addition to describing the specialization in the field of Orthopedi Raffles, Puteri also boasts the application of the concept of ‘’one stop center’’ of his specialist. ''Here, each a specialist clinic had the registration section, taking drugs and each payment. This is to facilitate and accelerate the process of patient health services,'' Puteri says.

At Raffles Hospital, said Puteri, the specialists work as a team in the treatment of patients with a holistic approach. ''We call a group practice that patients receive excellent care and service of medical teams and non-medical high-quality,'' she explained.

This teamwork of which have been successfully separated a pair of conjoined Korean twins are linked in the pelvis and lower vertebrae. A multidisciplinary team approach - including neurological surgeon, Surgery, plastic surgery, obstetric and ginekologic, urology, orthopedic surgery, specialist children and anesthesia, and 50 other medical support staff - was instrumental in that success, so the twins are successfully separated and can be returned to Korea with her parents.

NHG, for Acute Cases

Consider also the explanation Steven Mok, manager of the National Healthcare Group (NHG), which has four well-known hospitals. He said last year at least 50 thousand international patients come to them for medical treatment, especially cancer-related complaints, heart and eyes. Two main features of this group, the National University Hospital (NUH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), the hospital acute cases with a total of over 2000 beds, 10 intensive care units with different specialties, and 43 operating rooms, plus room and high dependency isolation with pressurized rooms negative.

''We understand those who are sick and left the comfort of home to seek help abroad is not scary experience. Our experience dealing with international patients make us understand how to make them feel welcome and comfortable as at home,''said Steven.

Parkway, Got All Specialties

Arifin Ng, Senior Manager Corporate Marketing, Parkway Group Healthcare is one not to be outdone in describing the benefits of his group, which operates the Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Gleneagles and East Shore. ''We have to all specialties, not just cancer,''he said.

In particular, he told me with pride how the success of liver transplant (liver) from living donors who take part for the transplanted heart to the patient, in 1995, as the first in Southeast Asia. That is, the limitations of the donor is no longer a barrier to liver transplantation, because the technology has since been proved, would not have to take a liver from someone who had died.

This achievement also Gleneagles Hospital and National University Hospital. This means that now patients with end-stage liver disease have more options than waiting for the uncertainty of those donors who had died.

Typically, the donor operation takes 6-8 hours and the donor must stay in the hospital for a week. The transplant takes 8-10 hours and recipients are required to stay in the hospital about three to four weeks.

''So far we handle an average of 30 patients per year for liver transplant. There are from Indonesia, India and Pakistan,''explained Arifin Ng.

The West Clinic, Cancer Specialist

The explanation put forward interesting Mutak Alexander, Marketing Manager Lisa Medical Colsultancy. This energetic man describes the benefits of The West Clinic Cancer Center Execellence Singapore as the first branch outside the U.S. as a reference and handling all types of cancer.

‘’Here standard used for the implementation of the United States and medical treatment, especially cancer. The medical team here can do tele-medicine with its headquarters in America,’’said Alex.

According to him, the privilege of The West Clinic, among others in collaboration with the specialist 150 's leading cancer researchers and determine the world-class handling / best treatment for each type of cancer, such as breast, prostate, colon, esophagus, stomach, brain, head / neck, leukemia, liver, ovary, pancreas, rectum, and so on.

Interesting words quoted from Dr. Steven Tucker, Medical Director The West Clinic. ''Now, patients can live longer with cancer as a chronic disease
such as diabetes or high blood pressure disease. Patients no longer die of cancer, but died with cancer.''