Claims that Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital charges more

In early August, Vietnamese patient Nguyen Van Loc informed the Thanh Nien Daily that he had requested Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital to compensate him for the extra fees he paid for the treatment of an intestinal leak that was accidentally caused during treatment for his liver tumor. Since then several Thanh Nien readers have reported having to pay more for treatment at Mount Elizabeth compared to other Singapore hospitals, according to the newspaper. A well-known Vietnamese artist, for example, says a computed tomography scan cost him nearly $850 at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, while the Singapore General Hospital only charges around $359.