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It’s pretty common to see a queue of people outside a clinic before it opens. After all, we need to get our MC fast so that we can go back to sleep for the entire day. Most of the time, people would stand queuing because no one’s in the clinic yet. According to a Facebook post by a GP, he has placed chairs outside his clinic so that his patients can wait comfortably. However, he allegedly received this last month: Lest you can’t read, here’s what the GP has written: For almost 7 years now since I started my clinic, East Coast Bedok Town Council has been up in arms about us putting chairs outside the clinic for the elderly and the sick to sit down. So this time round when we closed for the Hari Raya, they took the opportunity to catch us so that they can earn from this. We paid for the yellow box. We do not sell anything in the yellow box nor use it for smoking. Just chairs for the elderly and the weak to sit on while waiting to see the doctor. The previous Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan instructed staff to put chairs outside the polyclinic so that the elderly can sit down before the polyclinic opens. We are just following that example. Its sad when there are many other more important things but the the East Coast Town Council put this as their priority. The image is of a composition offer, whereby he has allegedly committed an offence of “overnight placement of items in yellow box – chairs”, and he can pay a composition fine of $1,000. Now, this yellow box isn’t the smoking yellow box we’re familiar with, but is what is known as the Outdoor Display Areas (ODA). Shopkeepers can place products on the yellow boxes, and they’re meant to “guide shopkeepers on keeping their goods stacked and displayed within these areas.” In other words, they belong to the shopkeeper, who can put anything there as long as it doesn’t spill out of the box. Apparently, the town council seems to have warned the GP about the chairs, and this time, they found the chairs outside the closed clinic during the Hari Raya period. The GP then posted a video, claiming that the town council told him to remove the chairs as it was “urgent”. He also said that he still has two IV plugs on him, claiming that he’s supposed to be in Sengkang General Hospital. Town Council Responded With such an allegation, you can bet that the town council’s going to reply. And reply they did. Apparently, they’ve agreed to waive the fine if the clinic agrees to remove the chairs after business hours. Here’s their reply: Lest you can’t read: In regard to WAN Medical Clinic's composition fine issued by the Town Council, we wish to share that the composition fine was issued to the owner of the shop unit, which WAN Medical Clinic is currently tenanted at. We wish to clarify that the Town Council did not urge Dr Iqmal to remove the chairs when he was in the hospital, in which we had no knowledge of. WAN Medical Clinic was told by the shop owner to settle the fine with the Town Council directly. In our explanation to WAN Medical Clinic, we have informed them not to leave the chairs overnight and we are agreeable to waive the fine should they comply to keep the chairs after business hour, which they had agreed to. Nevertheless, we wish Dr Iqmal a speedy recovery and we hope we have clarified the above matter. The Town Council will continue to do our best in keeping the neighbourhood safe for all our residents, shop owners, and tenants. Oh. Interesting.

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