However, Singapore is still considered the market leader due to its superior equipment, facilities and services, which are recognized as the best by many patients from other countries. Both its state and private hospitals have the latest and most sophisticated equipment to maintain the highest standard in medical care and services.
The majority of Singapore’s hospitals are regarded as the benchmark of quality health and medical services in the ASEAN region and thus it has built Singapore’s reputation as a leading medical and healthcare center.
Singapore strives to maintain its leading position in this sector, especially in the ASEAN region. Its sophisticated facilities and professional doctors are able to attract international patients for quality medical care at prices that are far more affordable than in their own countries.
Basically, a winning point for Singapore is its leading, high quality and extensive facilities as well as huge number of expert doctors and medical workers that are highly competent in their specialized fields, including having the latest diagnostic facilities.
This is one of the reasons renowned singer Krisdayanti had no qualms about having a number of cosmetic procedures in the Lion State. She said she was selective when choosing a doctor for her operations, but she did not fret about the cost of looking better. “It sounded costly at first impression, but what’s important is that it was successful, satisfactory and accounted for in my case,” she commented.
Krisdayanti, who is widely known as KD, released a biography a few years ago written by Alberthiene Endah titled Catatan Hati Krisdayanti: (Krisdayanti’s Heart Notes:) My Life, My Secret, in which she revealed she’d had breast surgery in 2004. In addition, Krisdayanti, the younger sister of songstress Yuni Shara, also talked about having a tummy tuck in Singapore in 2008 as well as Botox injections.
Recently, one of Singapore’s leading newspapers reported a significant increase in the number of patients (foreign and local) having undergone or intending to undergo such procedures. Also reported by xinhua.net after cross-checking with nine plastic and esthetic surgeons in Singapore, there has been a 30 percent increase in the number of patients over the past five years. (Burhan Abe)
The Jakarta Post, August 10, 2011
