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SINGAPORE: The National University Hospital (NUH) is setting up a new medical centre for specialist services, with the aim of seeing at least 25 per cent more outpatients yearly.
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan broke ground for the building on Friday.
The new 20-storey building will be ready in 2013. The new wing will help boost the hospital's capacity in the area of subsidised outpatient care.
The NUH medical centre is located just beside the existing Kent Ridge building and right above the Circle Line MRT Station. When completed in 2013, it will house a cancer centre, eight specialist outpatient clinics as well as teaching and research facilities.
The hospital said it aims to see more than 250,000 outpatient visits a year with the new facility. This is about 25 per cent more than the current load.
Besides seeing more patients, the hospital also hopes patients will find it easier to move around in the new centre.
Joe Sim, CEO, National University Hospital said: "If you look at the existing building, it is spread horizontally and that is actually quite bad for the patients because they have to move around different corridors before they can find a clinic.
"In the new centre, our aim is that when the patients come out of the MRT stations, within three turns they can get to a clinic of their choice."
NUH also plans to house a National Heart Centre, as well as add more ICU beds and operating theatres in the current building.
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