Great facilities & services in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital aka KKH

Recently I stopped blogging for a few weeks to take care of my son, Paul. He got breathing difficulties and was admitted to KKH. We choose C ward because the ward administrator advised us that it had better subsidy rates and based on Paul condition, he might stay for more than 3 days.

After 3 days in the high dependency ward, I thank God that Paul was recovering well then he was being transferred to C ward. When Paul was in the C ward, I felt blessed. It is recently being renovated, 4 bedded, lightly air con with personal ceiling fan, personal TV cum radio, personal bunk bed for a parent to stay in. The place had an atmosphere of friendliness that we hardly felt tired or bore by staying in the ward. Parents of other beds share thoughts with me on their children and I shared mine too. I felt comforted as we started to encourage one another. There is even a designated place for visitors to watch TV and wall mounted games for children to play with. When my elder son was visiting his brother, he got the chance to watch TV and play the games with other children at the designated place. You may wish to visit their website to view the wards @ http://www.kkh.com.sg/VirtualTour/Documents/virtual-tour.html

Source: KKH website at http://www.kkh.com.sg/VirtualTour/Documents/virtual-tour.html

We thought of upgrading the ward because we bought a hospitalisation plan for Paul. However, the hospitalisation plan we bought didn’t include the insurance rider as such the better the ward is, the higher the minimum sum expenses we got to pay. For example C ward, we got to pay the first $1500 and any expenses after $1500 the insurance company will pay for us. For A ward, we got to pay about $3000. As such we decided not to strain Paul Medisave by upgrading his ward.

We learned that by buying the insurance rider for our children, we don’t even need to pay a cent from the Medisave. The insurance rider cost about $160 per year. In the end, after government subsidy we need to pay about $1000 for being warded 5 days. If we bought the rider, we could save the $1000. But most importantly, Paul health is not comprised no matter which ward we choose because the doctors and nurses really take the pain to take good care of him in the most effective and efficiency way. Thank you all that makes Paul healthy again :)