29 Apr 2020 (12pm - 8pm)
REACH
[11:11 am, 29/04/2020] : [Sent by Gov.sg – 29 Apr]
COVID-19: Increasing healthcare capacity
🏥 Range of facilities include:
Swab Isolation Facilities (4K beds available)
For those waiting for swab test results
Community Care Facilities (20K beds by end-June)
For those with mild/no symptoms
Step-down Community Recovery Facilities (10K beds by end-June)
For those well at day 14 of illness
👨⚕👩⚕ Expanding healthcare capacity
- Non-urgent elective procedures postponed
- ⬆ Isolation wards, ICU capacity
- Public hospitals collaborating with private hospitals to provide treatment capacity
- Private sector healthcare workers, retirees, volunteers tapped on
- Teleconsultations, health apps for follow-ups used
More: Go.gov.sg/Medical-strategy
[12:01 pm, 29/04/2020] : Dear contributors, welcome back! This chat will be open till 8pm today 😃
📢 Topic 📢
The Taskforce has put in place a comprehensive medical plan to tackle Covid-19. There are tiered facilities to care for infected patients according to their medical needs.
This national medical plan was able to be executed within a very short timeframe because of strong public-private partnerships; this enables us to take care of all infected patients and ensure we have sufficient healthcare capacity for the longer term.
We are on the fourth week of the Circuit Breaker. People have been trying their best to adjust to all the safe distancing measures. Overall the number of infected persons are dropping.
All this is the Singapore spirit and #SGUnited at work.
How do you feel about our efforts so far in our continued fight against COVID-19?
👉🏻 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/number-of-covid-19-cases-in-community-could-increase-as-active-testing-is-stepped
👉🏻 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-ramps-up-facilities-manpower-for-coronavirus-battle
👉🏻 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/coronavirus-5-things-to-know-about-the-strategy-to-increase-singapores-healthcare-capacity
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[1:31 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
(1) Notice that Singapore can ramp up :-
a. Swab Isolation Facilites (4000 beds) - wait for swab test
b. Community Care Facilities (20000 beds) - mild/no symptomps
c. Step down Community Recovery Facilities (10000 beds) - well at day 14 of illness
-- a total of 34000 beds prepared in a couple of 3 months.
(2) One thing come to mind, how Singapore can ramp up 34,000 beds, cupboard, mattress, pillows, tentage, electric fans, partition boards etc in a couple of month without placing import orders?
(3) Singapore must have tremendous experience in National Service (Army, Home Team) - to build up the above living facilities in such a short time - with all the above logistics ready.
(4) Certainly, calling up private sector medical personnel, retiree, previous healthcare staff and volunteers, converting normal wards to become ICUs etc --- help to provide the medical personnel to help Singapore in the fight for this virus.
(5) And our 5 pillars Total Defense = certainly prepare us for the quick ramping up of this healthcare facilities - to prevent swamping and overwhelming our hospital facilites ---- a good indication that Singapore 5 pillar Total Defense is working well in an Emergency, a Crisis - that hit us so suddenly with little warning.
(6) This virus pandemic is like a "stealth enemy" - that launch a sudden attack at us - that threaten our lives, our Economy, our Finance, our Social lives, our Business, our Jobs and keep everyone lock up in our home ---- a very "fearful enemy" ---- that if we put all our mind, our efforts together --- we can defeat this "terrible enemy" --- in which we can slow and stop if from attacking us --- but we have yet to find the right weapons to eradicate it.
(7) While awaiting for the "invention of the right weapons" to defeat it - we can only do ring-fence, prevent this terrible from "jumping host" to propagate and attack more people, while we keep ourselves afloat in our business, our jobs, our Economy and keep us semi-active in social lives.
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[2:11 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
(1) This virus pandemic hit Singapore at 3 fronts :-
a. Lives - Safety at risk
b. Economy - Business, Jobs, Trade, Food and Good supply impacted.
c. Social & Emotional Mental - Day to day living and our social interaction impacted
(2) a. Saving Lives - has strongly exerted tremendous pressure on our Healthcare services - in terms of hospiital facilities and bed as well as medical personnel working overdrive to treat and care for the pandemic patients.
- by categorising and segregating the patients according to their respective health conditions affected by the virus --- Singapore can allocated our scare health resources and personnel - without straining our hospital and medical personnel - at the expenses of our medical care.
i. ICU - need acute care
ii. Hospital wards - need medical attention
iii. Community Care facilities - for mild or no symptoms case to recover by themselves without the need for medical intervention and not infecting the Community.
iv. Step down Community Recovery facilities - for those who are well after 14 day but possibly with virus load
v. Swab Isolation Facilites - awaiting swab test result that may have virus load so as not to infect others.
- appropriate health officers can be assigned to the respective categories and relieve the load of doctors and nurses --- that need to care for patient that need medical intervention.
b. Economy - will require Government monetary policies, fiscal policies, regulatory policies to help the business and worker's jobs.
- But Singapore Economy is heavily dependant on trade which is 3 times the size of our GDP --- which means other Countries must also be like-minded to trade with us ---- in order for our Economy to recover.
- So meanwhile, Singapore will have to zero-in on those Economic sectors and Industry sectors that are bright and generate alot of economic activities - to grow our GDP to ensure we don't do badly in GDP numbers --- and at the same time secure jobs and ensure business survive ----- so that consumers will have pocket money to spend on retail and f&b --- to keep SMEs going.
c. Social and Mental well-being --- we will have to help people to adjust from normal lives to more restricted lives -- albeit observing social distancing, use electronic gadgets to communicate, stay more at home, work more at home, study more at home, less social interaction to prevent virus from "jumping host", eat out less, travel less, put on face mask etc.
- Human is a very adaptive living beings.
- Initially when social lives are affected, emotion and mental well-beings will be affected.
- But as we start to accept this is a new normal, human can adjust - to save our own lives and adapt --- until one day when vaccines are found and treatment developed ---- only then we can adjust back to our normal lives.
- But one aspect that affect people's mental emotion -- could be business, jobs and finances - that can make people nervous or desperate -- that can lead to more disputes at home. Thus there is a need to address this --- at least for 1 year and a half until vaccine recover and business gain confidence to resume full-scale business activities.
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[4:13 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Wonder any official URL link that those local/PR who lose their jobs can seek help to look for alternative jobs?
bbmag
[4:20 pm, 29/04/2020] : have! DPM announced about SGUnited jobs portal in late march
https://www.sgunitedjobs.gov.sg
ntuc’s e2i can also help singaporeans with placement,
https://e2i.com.sg
https://www.facebook.com/EmploymentAndEmployabilityInstitute/
other than that, ntuc also has 2 telegram channels, one for pmet jobs and one for non-pmet jobs. here’s the non-pmet one, jobseekers can browse through and see if there’s anything suitable:
temp/contract/perm job opportunities for non-pmet,
https://bit.ly/jsc-ja-nonpmet
for pmet jobs,
https://bit.ly/jsc-ja-pmet
hope this helps!
Liyana
[4:20 pm, 29/04/2020] : Thanks for sharing!
[4:21 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Thanks for the information.
Helping someone who lose the job in tourism sector.
REACH
[4:47 pm, 29/04/2020] : Thanks for helping to share!
[5:10 pm, 29/04/2020] : https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-fake-videos-foreign-worker-dorm-trouble-shanmugam-12687564?cid=fbcna&fbclid=IwAR2_0rSv2DjNW4qeiaXi2Efxf6AkAateQgUDNH54MDPcJAGmQEt2iJSKbXU
Rama
[5:10 pm, 29/04/2020] : Fake videos being spread to create trouble in foreign worker dorms, risk 'serious' law and order incidents: Shanmugam https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-fake-videos-foreign-worker-dorm-trouble-shanmugam-12687564#.XqlEaCGbYFk.whatsapp
[6:42 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Everyone needs to be motivated and reassure that we are on the right path.
The testing did not slow down but ramp up from 2900 to 8000.
With so many tests but yet the number is going down and local transmission has been single digit for 2 days - is certainly good news for us.
Rama
[6:46 pm, 29/04/2020] : Agree
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XaniceAfcai
[7:39 pm, 29/04/2020] : Just wandering will they consider to tested the domestic helper in the shelter home.
[7:54 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
(1) If foreign domestic workers are to be tested - they will be the last batch to be tested, the reasons being :-
- FDW work at home, if they are infected - they will have already infected all the family members they are serving.
- Their employers are the one that will be working - and will be the priority batch that will be tested - before they are released to Community to work.
- Given the fear that this FDWs may have interact with the dorm and non-dorm workers - but indication that so far, no FDWs are found to be infected from them as so far FDWs are mainly infected from their employers.
- Our FDW is about 201,000 - a big number - and priority should be given to those who are going to the Community - not those who are staying at home.
- Now with the circuit breakers on, FDWs are not allowed to go out in the weekend (for 1 month already) --- and if any infected cases will have surfaced by now.
- But so far no cases reported ---- so may indicate that FDWs is not a source of infection --- unless situation changes and warrant a thorough testings of FDWs.
- Bear in mind - we need to test close to 4 million people before workers, school children can be released after circuit breaker ends.
- By putting FDWs in front of everyone - doesn't sound right - and slow those people that need to go to Community to work and go to school --- whereas FDWs stay at home and ring fence within a household only - with little threat of spreading to wider community - provided that they cannot go out during weekend.
XaniceAfcai
[7:58 pm, 29/04/2020] : I mean those fdw at agency...
[7:59 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
They should be tested before they join the employer, I thought should be logical.
XaniceAfcai
[8:00 pm, 29/04/2020] : Agreed. But now they shd be residing somewhere in the maid shelter etc blar.. Heard that the place is also crowded type.
[8:00 pm, 29/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
That one got to ask MOM.
I don't know.
REACH
[8:01 pm, 29/04/2020] : Hi REACH Contributors,
We will be closing the chat for today.
Thank you very much for being part of our WhatsApp chat and participating actively.
Goodnight,
Megan ☺
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