THE 11 specialist outpatient clinics at the new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) in Yishun open on Monday, even as work on the rest of the hospital continues.
The clinics, which range from cardiology and orthopaedic surgery to dentistry, will be manned by 40 doctors, 40 nurses and 20 dental assistants between 8am and 5.30pm.
Supporting services such as laboratories, pharmacy and day surgery suites will also open then.
Already, more than 200 patients have appointments that day, either Yishun residents referred there by their doctors or patients of the first lot of doctors who have moved over from Alexandra Hospital (AH).
With these patients going there, some load will probably be taken off the specialist clinics at other public hospitals, so overall waiting times may well go down.
KTPH, the first public hospital to open here in more than a decade, expects to be fully operational by September.
[SOURCE: http://www.straitstimes.com]
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