SINGAPORE: Some foreign healthcare workers who are new to Singapore will be able to stay in hostel-type facilities before they move to other housing options in the market.Works are expected to start from the end of this year. The facilities will progressively be ready from the second quarter of 2024, said the Ministry of Health and MOH Holdings in a joint media release on Monday .
"Such healthcare hostels are one way to better onboard the healthcare workers after they first arrive here," the media release stated. It is also seeking proposals for another 11 potential sites - one brownfield site and 10 greenfield sites. "The pipeline comprises local talent which forms the majority of our healthcare workforce, and is complemented with trained foreign healthcare workers," it added.that close to 4,000 new nurses will be progressively brought on board by the end of 2023 as part of the ministry's efforts to replace those"lost" to other countries and to expand the Singapore healthcare workforce.
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