10/01/2013

Gan Kim Yong learning well from Japan

Gan Kim Yong and his teams of officials from the Health and Housing ministries have returned from their fact finding and learning mission in Japan on ageing problems. He has learnt well, many times better than Boon Heng. In yesterday’s ST he has already came out with a list of innovative initiatives learnt from Japan for implementation. He is also setting up a committee to look deeper into the ageing population problems.
 

Among the things that the team has learnt for implementations are:
 

1. A need for support services during working hours when the young are at work. Also in cases of oldies living alone, night services are also needed.
2. Medical practitioners and polyclinics should be located near the ageing population.
3. Employ the elderly, and retirement age should be raised to 67. Only the Japanese could come up with such a clever idea. Didn’t we been employing people up to 90 and onwards?
4. Need for home care and more nursing homes as our population ages. Dunno if these facilities are provided free.
5. More support to caregivers, probably salary increases.
 

The govt should send more such study trips to learn from other countries to make life better for Singaporeans. They have forgotten to send Chuan Jin and the NTUC officials to study how other countries are handling their foreign workers and immigrant problems and if foreigners were discriminating their citizens how to deal with such problems. Maybe after such an enlightening trip the MOM could introduce more effective measures or at least get enlightened.
 

Money well spent for sure, every cent of it.

14 comments:

  1. Dunno if these facilities are provided free.
    RB

    Alamak that's what compulsory Medishield Life is for mah. Where got free?

    And you want subsidise or free, wait long long lah, maybe 1 year appointment lah. Maybe die faster better lah so Medishield no need to cover you until 90 years lah.

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  2. If you really love of your citizens and be kind to them, you what to do ..........

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  3. Let elderly people 'hurry up and die', says Japanese minister.
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese

    Did Gan Kim Yong learnt anything from that in Japan?

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  4. 1. A need for support services during working hours when the young are at work. Also in cases of oldies living alone, night services are also needed.

    Really?
    I translate this to mean:
    "Fucking PAP gahmen don't want to look after my elderly parents.
    So how the fuck am I suppose to accept an overseas posting?
    I better vote Opposition to enhance my career prospects."

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  5. 5. More support to caregivers, probably salary increases.

    Is this why we are paying million dollar salaries to our Ministers?
    Because they are caregivers to a 90 year old Limpeh?

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  6. I can figure out everything mentioned without stepping out of my room. No need to waste time and money going to Japan.

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  7. Last time, a big ass commented that if Japan do not open its door whether back or front to the foreign trashes, she gonna to suffer labour shortages in looking after aged population.

    Now we went over and learnt from them

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  8. knnbccb .... to all papies-rians

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  9. Maybe we can from Japan how to be a strong and big economy without foeigners and can still look after the oldies.

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  10. 2. Medical practitioners and polyclinics should be located near the ageing population.

    Didn't Millionaire Minister Cow Dung say it's cheaper to put our elderly parents into old folks home in Johor?
    So now how?
    Mover our doctors and polyclinics into Johor also?

    Why not centralize all our elderly care facilities into the Istana?
    Then our Limpeh don't have to travel so far for his medical checkups?

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  11. DO YOU TRUST our PRESENT (not the past) govt ??????????????????

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  12. The biggest problem of our healthcare is the cap on the number of people studying medicine to protect the current bunch of medical practitioners incomes. This protectionalism is the main cause of the unaffordable and stagnant medical sector. The low income needed no protection from the foreign worker but the law and medicine practitioners enjoying good life under this kind of elite protection measure.

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  13. This is how 'competent' pap policy are. The problems we facing now can al be fixed many years ago if they are really competent. Unfortunately, the voters are daft and keep on voting for them.

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  14. Nothing against sending our talent to travel oversea to learn from others,or learn from descendants of war murderers how to be good to the elderly....

    However,few things that can learn from my dear Ah Poon tomotachi are:
    1)Change and anyhow write historical facts.
    2)Invade others territories and claim as theirs.
    3)Brutality
    4)Unusual sexual lustful pervert acts ,claiming to be the best like Mateela but still refuse to admit that they need to learn from cheekopek like me.
    Hehe..
    This time I also remain anon.You know who I am?1 kopi for you if your guess is right.





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