[Poor Health] Karma strikes ex-Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan hard. He is a very money faced person and cares not for the poor. As health minister, he turned healthcare in Singapore into a business as evidenced by his words: “In three specialties alone, heart, eye and cancer, I see tens of millions of middle-class patients within a 7-hour flying radius, waiting to be served. If they can be attracted here, they will keep us all very busy." Khaw Boon Wan, October 2003. https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...w-exhorts-yeo-with-may-the-force-be-with-you/ So crazy was he about making lots of $$$ from foreigners that he simply ignored the fact that prevention and always better than cure: In fact, he even neglected upstream health prevention in Singapore citizens in his quest to grow the hospital medical business to provide foreigners with complex and exorbitantly priced medical procedures. “If you look around, our investments in health promotion and diseases prevention, I think... it is actually significantly lower than the amount of money we spend on treating diseases,” he (Minister Gan Kim Yong) said. : Due to a lack of "holistic approach towards health promotion, taking into account how can we empower consumers so that they make the right choice" Empower consumers with holistic approach to healthcare: Gan Kim Yong To address the challenges of non-communicable diseases, Singapore needs to move upstream and find ways to keep the population healthy, said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong at the Ministerial Meeting on Universal Health Coverage TODAY (11 Feb 2015).http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/empower-consumers-holistic-approach-healthcare-gan-kim-yong As minister of Health, all he was interested in was other people's money. There is a possibility that he even prayed for others to fall sick, so financial profit would follow as hospital admissions grew. Khaw ultimately bankrupted the entire system because thereafter, Singapore public hospitals were so choke full of local patients that it was impossible or untenable to admit foreign patients to Singapore public hospitals due to shortage of beds. Thus the current very high government hospital healthcare expenditure on treating Singaporeans and minimal earnings nowadays from treatment of foreign patients. By worshiping $$$ and not promoting healthy lifestyle solutions and setting the healthy lifestyle example for people under his influence and charge, Khaw betrayed his duties as the Minister of Health and caused physical and financial hardship to befall many Singaporeans. Singapore has since placed first runner up in the Darwin award for the most diabetic population and also 1st placed for the most amputations performed, kidney failure/ dialysis rates are also at world record levels. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/singapore-has-2nd-highest-proportion-of-diabetics Karma is a bitch and will bite the guilty eventually and unlike minister Khaw, it seems that she is really up to her task. This wretched man deserves his plight, because he worshipped money and did not wish the best outcome for others.
Singapore was ranked 6th in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems in the year 2000. Bloomberg ranked Singapore's healthcare system the most efficient in the world in 2014. The Economist Intelligence Unit placed Singapore 2nd out of 166 countries for health-care outcomes. Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries ranked Singapore the 4th healthiest country in the world and first in Asia. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
People still don't know how serious diabetes problem is. In anycase, WHO is probably using short term metrics like number of doctors, waiting time, amount of government subsidy, infant mortality etc. But the unreliability of WHO statistics can be seen in how fast things change, either with time or with a revision in criteria used. In anycase, WHO is probably politically biased and as a subsidiary of UN, is probably easily bribed because they are very dependant on donor countries and also promote the culture and business of donor countries and USA etc. Probably, Singapore is a main benificiary of this culture and possibly rewarded for sponsorship etc. Anyway, were on the podium for sickness btw: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/singapore-has-2nd-highest-proportion-of-diabetics
