Porters, Attendants and Related Workers

How to become a hospital or Clinic attendant

Official title: Hospital/Clinic attendant

Also called: Clinic attendant, Health attendant, Hospital attendant, Hospital orderly, Hospital porter, Hospital servant, Mental hospital attendant, Clinic attendant, Hospital porter

Hospital/Clinic attendant assists in care of hospital patients under the direction of nursing and medical staff. He/she bathes, dresses patients, serves and collects food trays, feeds patients requiring help and transports patients to treatment units using wheel-chair or wheeled carriage or assists them to walk. He/she also dusts and cleans patients’ room, cleans, sterilises, stores, prepares and issues dressing packs, treatment trays and other supplies.

Main tasks

Moving patients to treatment units and distributing dressing packs, treatment trays and other supplies

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

Median pay: $29,508 a year. The middle half earn $25,656 to $33,804 a year.
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Questions people ask

How much does a hospital or Clinic attendant earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $29,508 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $25,656 to $33,804.

Will AI change the work of a hospital or Clinic attendant?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026