The ministry had earlier announced that the suspension would end this Sunday, but has opted to extend the suspension by another two weeks.
The statement adds that while the daily number of local Covid-19 cases has decreased gradually over the past week, hospitals continue to face a high volume of patients, and healthcare workers are still under a significant amount of stress. In a Facebook post on Friday evening, health minister Ong Ye Kung said that there was a gradual decrease in the number hospitalised due to Covid-19 but that hospitals were still very busy and under stress due to the large number of non-Covid-19 related emergency department admissions.
These include patients or residents who are critically ill, paediatric patients, birthing or post-partum mothers, or patients who might require additional support from caregivers such as patients who have mental incapacities or family members who are undergoing caregiver training to better care for their loved ones after hospital discharge.
Insane. Stupid. Just stop & ban ALL the covid testings so only sick people will go to thew hospitals. And the definition of sick is « feeling bad » and not when u see 2 bars on a piece of plastic.
All these physical isolation of patients and residents from their family over such a long period of time do more damages to the patients and residents’ mental well-being than protect them!!😤
Poor patients inside the hospital hope there will be people managing their mental health