Beach Road community clinic offers affordable or free care to seniors in rental flats

A community clinic in Beach Road that provides free and highly subsidised primary care to elderly people living in the area's rental flats has seen its number of patients growing.

- Judith Tan

Since the clinic, a joint initiative by Sata CommHealth and Singapore Health Services (SingHealth), opened in September 2024, more than 66 per cent of the 1,000 care visits have been made by residents in the low-income group living in rental flats.

The Sata CommHealth Community Clinic was officially opened by Mayor of Central Singapore District Denise Phua on March 10. "The objective of this centre is really to ensure accessibility because it is right smack in the middle of a housing estate that is in need, and that is really important," said Ms Phua, who is also an MP for Jalan Besar GRC, where the clinic is located.

She emphasised that the clinic is also affordable because it is "plugged into our Chas system, and that's really useful".