Paul Tan shared a hospitalisation bill on Facebook where the patient was charged $122.43 for being warded 1-day in Class C corridor of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). The date of the hospitalisation was not viewable on the bill.
The charges for being warded in Class C was reduced to $25 after the Government grant for class C hospitalisation kicked-in.
The issue of bed crunch in Tan Tock Seng Hospital had previously surfaced in social media. In Aug 2015, a Facebook user Gopi Bala shared a picture in his Facebook which showed many beds cramped in a small area of a hospital.
A photo which has been circulating in social media purportedly shows more than ten beds cramped in a small area of what appears to be a hospital ward. Some beds were placed just in front of another, seemingly to save space.