Patients needing hospitalisation are waiting longer to get a bed due to a high number of patients, many with complex conditions. But the Ministry of Health (MOH) stressed that treatment begins even as they wait to get sent to a ward.
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SINGAPORE – Non-urgent elective operations that were deferred during the pandemic have resumed in the past year as the Covid-19 situation here improved, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). Hospitals cut back on elective procedures amid an increase of Covid-19 hospitalisations caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said in July 2022. Hospitals had first.
Non-urgent elective operations that were deferred during the pandemic have resumed in the past year as the Covid-19 situation here improved, said the Ministry of Health (MOH).