Singapore · legal and regulatory

What is legal in Singapore, and what Panya will route.

The HSA (Health Sciences Authority) classifies tirzepatide and semaglutide as prescription-only medicines under the Medicines Act. Mounjaro and Wegovy are both registered for Singapore use. MOH Circular 87/2024 specifically requires the first GLP-1 consultation to be in person at a licensed clinic; follow-ups can be telehealth. This rule applies to every legal Singapore GLP-1 channel, hybrid or otherwise.

What is legal in Singapore

Three routes that stay on the right side of the line.

Route 1

Hybrid telehealth (MOH 87/2024 compliant)

Siena Health, Noah, Ordinary Folk. Hybrid by design: first visit in clinic for BMI assessment + medical history + prescribing decision, follow-ups online. Stripe-pay, English UI, expat-friendly. Cost runs SGD 190 to 420 per month for the standard 5 to 10 mg dose. The MOH 87/2024 first-visit-in-person rule is genuinely enforced; reputable hybrid providers route around it cleanly. Pure-online providers that skip the in-person visit are operating against the circular and Panya does not route to them.

Route 2

Private GP or aesthetic clinic

Clifford Clinic, Bay Aesthetics, IMC Healthcare. Doctor-led GLP-1 + GIP, English-fluent staff. Cost runs SGD 325 to 700 per month. Some aesthetic-clinic framing leans on weight-loss-as-aesthetic rather than as-medical-management, which can make MOH compliance ambiguous; ask about MOH 87/2024 explicitly when booking. The clinics that are genuinely compliant will state it on their site.

Route 3

Longevity programme

Chi Longevity (Four Seasons Hotel), The Longevity GP. NUS Centre for Healthy Longevity ties. Cost runs SGD 700 to 3,000 per month. Peptide-stack + GLP-1 + biomarker tracking framing, longevity-medicine-not-weight-loss positioning. Higher-touch, more comprehensive, more expensive. Best fit for buyers who want the full multi-month metabolic workup, not just the prescription.

What Panya will not do from Singapore

No pure-online GLP-1 routes, no research-chem channels.

Pure-online GLP-1 providers that skip the first in-person visit are operating against MOH Circular 87/2024 and Panya will not route to them, even if the price is attractive. Research peptides (BPC-157, dihexa, the non-GLP-1 catalog at panya.health/peptide) are documented for transparency but we do not yet route to vendors for them anywhere, in Singapore or elsewhere. HSA's posture on unscheduled research peptides is that personal-use imports are tolerated in small quantities but human use is unsupervised; we do not endorse that regardless.

What Panya will do from Singapore

Match you to a MOH-compliant provider.

Take the quiz from a Singapore IP and you get matched against the 11-signal rubric to a hybrid telehealth provider, private GP / aesthetic clinic, or longevity programme that scores 70/100 or higher. The match accounts for your dose progression, English-language consultation needs, the in- person-first rule, and whether you want pure GLP-1 management or a longevity-medicine framing. Panya scorecards live for the major Singapore routes; SGD price band, MOH compliance evidence, consultation depth, and prescriber rigour are all in the audit.

Sources

Where these rules live.

  • Health Sciences Authority (HSA): hsa.gov.sg for the official medicines register and prescription-only classifications under the Medicines Act.
  • Ministry of Health (MOH) Circular 87/2024 — the 2024 directive specifying that the first GLP-1 consultation must be in person at a licensed clinic; follow-ups may be telehealth.
  • Singapore Medical Council (SMC) for physician registration and Ethical Code on prescribing scope.
  • Singapore Customs and Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) for medicine import rules: small personal-use quantities are generally tolerated with a doctor's letter and original packaging.

Regulation can change. This page was last reviewed April 2026. If you spot a rule we have wrong, email partner@panya.health and we will correct it the same week.

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