---
id: sgobs.healthcare.medifund-assistance-fy2024
kind: observation
title: "MediFund assistance and application outcomes"
url: https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/observation/sgobs.healthcare.medifund-assistance-fy2024
language: en
evidence_status: final
collection_as_of: 2026-10-16
---

# MediFund assistance and application outcomes

MOH reports S$165.1 million in assistance, nearly 1.1 million successful applications, 99.9% of received applications approved, and average help of S$931 per inpatient admission and S$99 per outpatient visit. Programme totals/averages are not individual entitlements.

## Record details

- **Value type:** observation
- **Unit:** SGD million assistance provided
- **Value:** 165.1
- **Status:** final
- **Source revision:** MOH MediFund FY2024 release, 28 November 2025
- **Metric:** medifund assistance (`sgmetric.healthcare.medifund-assistance`)
- **Dimensions:** Successful applications: nearly 1.1 million; Applications approved percent: 99.9; Average assistance per outpatient visit sgd: 99; Average assistance per inpatient admission sgd: 931
- **Population:** MediFund applications and successful assistance across public healthcare institutions and intermediate/long-term care facilities in Singapore
- **Denominator:** FY2024 programme period, 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025; 99.9% is the share of applications received that were approved, not the share of all patients or bills funded
- **Geography:** [Singapore](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/geography/sg.geo.country.singapore)
- **Published:** 2025-11-28
- **Reference period:** Financial Year 2024 (1 April 2024–31 March 2025)

## Sources

- [https://www.moh.gov.sg/newsroom/-165-million-disbursed-to-needy-singaporeans--through-medifund-in-fy2024/](https://www.moh.gov.sg/newsroom/-165-million-disbursed-to-needy-singaporeans--through-medifund-in-fy2024/) — Accessed 2026-10-14

## Explore connections

- Topics: [MediFund](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/topic/sgtopic.healthcare.medifund)
- Places: [Singapore](https://ik.sg/en/knowledge/geography/sg.geo.country.singapore)

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