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Health Facilities (Primary Care, Dental Clinics and Pharmacies)

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Health Facilities (Primary Care, Dental Clinics and Pharmacies)

Data from Jan 2009 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:04 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Health Facilities in Primary Care, Dental Clinics and Pharmacies with further breakdown

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HealthFacilitiesPrimaryCareDentalClinicsandPharmacies.csv (112 rows, 6.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Institution type Text	Sector Type Text	Type of Facility Text	Number of facilities Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2009	Primary Care Facilities	Public	Polyclinics	18
2009	Primary Care Facilities	Private	General Practioner Clinics	1628
2009	Dental Clinics	Public	Polyclinic Dental Clinics	9
2009	Dental Clinics	Public	Hospital/Institution Dental Clinic	5
2009	Dental Clinics	Public	School Dental Clinics	226
2009	Dental Clinics	Private	Private Dental Clinics	582
2009	Pharmacies	Public	Public Pharmacies	58
2009	Pharmacies	Private	Private Pharmacies	153
2010	Primary Care Facilities	Public	Polyclinics	18
2010	Primary Care Facilities	Private	General Practioner Clinics	1651

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	Year
Institution type	institution_type	Text	-	-
Sector Type	sector	Text	-	Public, Private
Type of Facility	facility_type_b	Text	-	-
Number of facilities	no_of_facilities	Numeric	Number	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e4663ad3f088a46dabd3972dc166402d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2017). Health Facilities (Primary Care, Dental Clinics and Pharmacies) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 7, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e4663ad3f088a46dabd3972dc166402d/view

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Created on

13 Nov 2017

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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MOH (Ministry of Health)