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Singapore Healthcare System Delayed Reporting Virus Outbreak

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Nov 11, 2015
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For reasons that are unclear, Singapore’s leading public hospital – the one that Patriarch Lee Kuan Yew died in – delayed for months telling the public that an outbreak of hepatitis C had infected 23 kidney patients while receiving treatment, and that five had died.

The episode marks a blip in the history of the nation’s healthcare system, not helped by …

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