The swine flu current alert status is now ORANGE (as of 8pm 30th April)! All volunteers are now out of bounce, banned from the hospital. But I have to work because I am no longer a volunteer/intern. I'm officially a staff in Saint Luke's Hospital, on the frontline screening patients/visitors for swine flu. It has been a tiring day screening the patients while donning the full personal protection equipment (PPE), everyone is stressed up. Since tomorrow will be the raise of level 5, it's going to be even more crazy.

Press Release Last Updated on 30 April 09

Even though as of 30th April 2009, there are no human cases of Mexican swine flu in Singapore, MOH will be upgrading our Disease Outbreak Response System Alert status from Yellow to Orange. There is a real possibility that such cases may surface in Singapore and we must be prepared at all fronts to delay its spread to Singapore for as long as possible.

There are various new precautionary measures implemented under the Orange Alert Status. 1) Temperature screening and screening for flu like symptoms for visitors to clinical care areas would be implemented. 2) Hospital staff are required to don PPE in all areas with patient contact. 3) The number of visitors would also be restricted to one visitor per patient.