National genetic testing programme results can’t be used for insurance underwriting: Ong Ye Kung

National genetic testing programme results can’t be used for insurance underwriting: Ong Ye Kung

The Straits Times - Sports·2026-01-19 19:02

SINGAPORE – Safeguards and upcoming new laws in Singapore will ensure that genetic information from patients will not be available to their medical insurance company, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has said.

Providing this assurance at the official opening of the nation’s first Genomic Assessment Centre (GAC) at the National Heart Centre Singapore, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung reiterated that all test results from the

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