SINGAPORE: Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said on Saturday that the small city-state is in desperate need of more doctors. He called on Singaporean doctors living abroad to return to the country in order to boost health care coverage. Commenting on the shortage of doctors here, the former prime minister said that the “hundreds of doctors produced each year by the medical schools here were not enough.” Recruitment of foreigners also has not quite solved the problem. “We have 10,000 doctors here. We shall need more with an ageing population,” he said. “Out of the 10,000, 2,000 are foreigners, so they neither speak dialects nor the languages that some of our older patients speak, like Malay,” he added. Medical facilities in Singapore are among the world's best, but remain under-staffed as a result of doctors traveling abroad to study and not returning to the country.