Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre (Chinese: 仁慈医院及医护中心) is a charity/hospital mainly treating long term aged patients in Singapore. Its main branch is at Buangkok View, north of Hougang while the other branch is located at Jalan Tan Tock Seng at Moulmein. Despite its Buddhist origins, the hospital welcomes patients of all races and religions.
The hospital's CEO Shi Ming Yi performed stunts to help the patients to raise funds in the annual charity programme on Channel U since the first charity programme started in 2003.
Ren Ci made headlines when the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that the charity is being probed for 'possible irregularities in certain financial transactions'. An audit found that the charity had made interest-free loans amounting to a few million dollars to various companies since 1996. There were discrepancies between what the charity recorded it lent and what the companies involved recorded as having borrowed. In 2009, Ming Yi was convicted on four charges for misappropriating Ren Ci funds, making unauthorized loans and giving false information to the Commissioner for Charities. The Charity's Institute of Public Character (IPC) status was not renewed as a result of the outcome of the investigation.[1] It regained its IPC status on 5 August 2008.
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