By Tan Dawn Wei

Another hospital in the east will need to be developed in about 10 years' time when the baby boomers cross into their 70s.

This will ease the burden on Changi General Hospital (CGH), whose emergency department is one of the busiest, possibly because of an overflow of patients from other hospitals, said Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday.

He reiterated this need for an additional hospital at the National Heart Centre's 10th anniversary celebrations, a day after he spoke about it at a nursing awards ceremony.

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