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Why Koreans flock to Bukit Batok Polyclinic
April Chong
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
The Straits Times

FOR 20 years, retiree Kim Sung Choon, 64, had her diabetes prescriptions filled only whenever she returned to her home town in South Korea.

She knew her chronic ailment required constant monitoring, but did not see doctors in Singapore. With her minimal English, communication was a big problem - until January, that is.

That was when she found out that her countrymen were seeing a Korean doctor in a clinic within the Bukit Batok Polyclinic.


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