As Covid-19 cases are increasing in Singapore, the healthcare sector needs more hands on deck to fight the pandemic.
Thus, former healthcare professionals and non-healthcare professionals alike are being invited to assist the SG Healthcare Corps in the fight against Covid-19.
According to Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, 3,000 healthcare professionals have already been recruited since the SG Healthcare Corps was launched earlier this month, reported TODAY online.
However, it seems that more are needed to take part in the Covid-19 fight.
Let’s take a look at the website to find out what you need to know to sign up.
Those without healthcare experience are free to apply as long as they are 18 years old and above.
There are opportunities open for aspiring community-care ambassadors, healthcare assistants, and healthcare operations support staff.
Healthcare operations support staff assist in nasal swab tests, administrative tasks (for example, registration and moving supplies), and phlebotomy procedures (meaning an injection into the vein to take blood or add fluids).
To prepare for these roles, enlistees will receive free training for up to 3 days.
Meanwhile, community-care ambassadors and healthcare assistants will tend to those in nursing homes and senior care centres.
Enlistees will receive training in basic care, mobility assistance, and communication. The training will take 5 days for community care ambassadors and 17 days for healthcare assistants.
Upon completion of the required training modules, enlistees will be on standby until deployment.
The SG Healthcare Corps is also seeking former healthcare professionals to be on standby to provide both Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 patients with care.
There are sign-up forms for the following positions:
Interested applicants may head to the website to fill-up the relevant forms.
Trained personnel will be deployed in places that support Covid-19 operations, such as swab isolation facilities, foreign workers’ dormitories, and community isolation facilities.
Some are sent to assist frontliners that are working relentlessly to end the pandemic, while others may be sent to short-staffed community hospitals or nursing homes.
Enlistees will be compensated for their contributions, so those who have lost income due to the ‘Circuit Breaker’ can find a way to support themselves.
While there are precautionary measures and training to minimise the chances of infection, if a volunteer gets infected, their medical expenses that are not covered by existing insurance, indemnity, or compensation schemes will be footed by the Government.
The SG Healthcare Corps needs volunteers that are healthy and well, thus it’s preferred that enlistees don’t have flu-like symptoms and long-term health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the coronavirus.
If you’re frustrated about being stuck at home with nothing much to do, and want to do something to fight the Covid-19 disease that has turned our lives upside down, do consider joining the SG Healthcare Corps.
After you apply, it will get in touch with successful applicants and connect them to institutions that need manpower.
In the meantime, follow social distancing protocols so we can end the ‘Circuit Breaker’ soon. We’ve seen cases decline over the past few days, and we hope that this trend will continue.
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