MOH to construct office building on SGH campus that could serve as its HQ

Health Ministry is planning to bring more of its officers under one roof

- Ng Keng Gene

The Ministry of Health (MOH) is planning to bring more of its officers under one roof, at a new office building it will construct in Outram Park that could serve as the ministry's new headquarters.

The new office building in MacAlister Road will be built within the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) campus.

It will "house MOH and MOH agencies that are now scattered throughout the island", a ministry spokesman told The Straits Times on May 30.

MOH's existing headquarters at the College of Medicine Building, a national monument, occupies part of the site earmarked for the new building.

The new office building is one of two new healthcare-related developments that came to light from recent public documents from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).

The other development is a new healthcare facility near Paya Lebar MRT station.

The new office building in SGH is slated to have 55,442 sq m of office space and 352 sq m for retail purposes.

The site for the new building is about 20,000 sq m in size — equivalent in area to about three football fields.

It currently houses two national monuments occupied by MOH since 1987 — the College of Medicine Building and the Tan Teck Guan Building — as well as an open-air carpark.