About 75 seniors with Covid-19 have been admitted to Singapore’s first community treatment facility (CTF) so far, Dr Wong Kirk Chuan, chief operating officer of Woodlands Health, which runs the CTF, said yesterday.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Sept 19 that the facility would be set up in response to rising Covid-19 cases here over the last month.
Located on the site of the NTUC Health Nursing Home in Tampines, the CTF opened and began receiving its first patients on Sept 23, one week after MOH approached Woodlands Health for assistance, said Dr Wong.
It is meant to care for senior patients who are stable and mildly symptomatic but have underlying chronic illnesses or comorbidities – such as a weakened immune system – that put them at higher risk of getting sicker.
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