MOH urges people to go to emergency department only for serious conditions after jump in visits

The ministry said: “We would like to remind the public to only seek medical treatment at hospital emergency departments for serious or life-threatening emergencies, such as chest pain, breathlessness and uncontrollable bleeding.

This is because there has been a significant increase in patients with acute respiratory infection, some of which have Covid-19, at polyclinics. Appointments will not be required at any of the 10 joint testing and vaccination centres island-wide, it added.

Deja vu…high vaccination rate and still so many people falling sick and this wave supposedly weaker ? Strange…

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