MEASURES TO MANAGE HEALTHCARE CAPACITY
The Health Ministry said it has been working with public hospitals for contingency planning, such as ensuring adequate manpower and deferring non-urgent elective surgeries to maximise bed capacity for urgent cases in need of acute care.
"In addition, hospitals are tapping on step-down facilities like Transitional Care Facilities and alternative care models like Mobile Inpatient Care@Home (MIC@Home) to ensure proper right-siting of patients," MOH said.
A second COVID-19 Treatment Facility will open this weekend at Singapore EXPO Hall 10, augmenting capacity at the existing facility at Crawfurd Hospital.
Together, they will be able to care for more than 80 stable COVID-19 patients who do not require intensive hospital care.
"If the need arises, the CTF (COVID-19 Treatment Facility) capacity at EXPO can be further increased," said MOH.
MOH WEBSITE TO BE UPDATED DAILY
From Dec 19, MOH will update its estimated COVID-19 case count daily on its website instead of on a weekly basis to provide the latest information during this period of rising infections.
It noted that as COVID-19 testing is no longer routinely required in DORSCON Green, the number of reported infections is expected to under-represent the actual situation.
Singapore moved its pandemic response down to code green on Feb 13, the lowest level under its four-tier Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) framework.
That was also when most COVID-19 restrictions such as mask-wearing on public transport were removed.
To get a more accurate estimate of the number of local COVID-19 cases, MOH said it takes into account the number of people who have symptoms of acute respiratory infection (ARI) at the polyclinics, the proportion of polyclinic ARI samples that test positive for COVID-19 for each epidemiological week, as well as the share of national ARI cases that are seen in polyclinics.
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