The move is aimed at freeing up beds in the packed psychiatric hospital.
The Institute of Mental Health , which has around 2,000 beds, is almost full. Long-staying patients there total about 1,000.
This is aimed at freeing up beds in the packed psychiatric hospital, National Healthcare Group chief executive Joe Sim told The Straits Times on the sidelines of IMH’s Nurses Day event on July 26. In brief remarks made at IMH’s Nurses Day event on July 26, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung acknowledged the work the nurses are putting in, particularly given that IMH is Singapore’s largest hospital with the most number of patients who stay there for a long time, among all hospitals.
“As Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said, is an important national priority... The treatment, the acute work, the rehab work you do here, we do our best to support you including recruitment of nurses... infrastructure.”the focus must be on going upstream, for instance, starting with controlling young children’s usage of devices and social media.
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