Singapore: Lighten foreign hired labourer's medical treatment to bear Plan to improve the amount of medical insurance

Singapore: Lighten foreign hired labourer's medical treatment to bear Plan to improve the amount of medical insurance
Beijing, March 30 (Xinhuanet) a report announced on the 30th reveals, seeing that the medical burden of foreign hired labourer of working in Singapore at present is aggravated, the Singaporean government is considering improving their medical insurance amount.
The new society of Germany reports on the 30th, Singaporean health minister Xu WenYuan expressed a few days ago, the government is considering increasing the foreign hired labourer's medical insurance amount. He says, one suffers from the lung to form for example The nuclear woman servant of Philippine has lived in ICU of a hospital of the locality for 3 weeks, have already spent 2 Ten thousand Singapore dollar ( Nearly shut 1 at U.S. dollar . 52 Singapore dollars) ,This is more than 4 times of its amount upper limit of medical insurance, have already gone beyond woman servant's personal burden ability.
Xu Wen says far, the medical insurance amount made newly will depend on amount of money beyond the scope of medical insurance.
The statistics show, the foreign hired labourer about 7 5 who worked in Singapore last year. 7 ten thousand people. The foreign hired labourer holding the work permit enjoys and forces the treatment of medical insurance in Singapore.
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