The hospital was opened on the 8 February 2010 and cost $21.5 million to build.

The 255,000 elderly policyholders will see a 28 percent increase, to $584 from $460, to cover those hospital costs not paid by Medicare.

The good doctor was ambitious, this private hospital must have cost him a fortune.

Tan Kim Ching agreed to the move, on condition that the rebuilt hospital should not cost less than the original one.

The new, 200-bed hospital will cost about $147 million and is to have two state-of-the-art centers for women's health and cancer treatment.

"Though I felt bad and a little angry, a private hospital would have cost at least 2,500 rupees," or about $60, she said.

The hospitals cost much more and have an atmosphere ill-suited to extended stays.

The goal is to make clear to patients that some hospitals cost more and to share these costs.

When hospitals didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars to equip.

Due to be finished in 1992, the hospital will cost £1 million.