Oxygen supplementation is critically important for patients who suffer severe illness as a result of Covid-19. Such patients often have breathing difficulties and a lack of oxygen could be fatal.
I have filed a question for the Minister for Health to get assurance that Singapore has sufficient oxygen supplies and sufficient domestic oxygen manufacturing capacity, should Covid-19 cases spike after re-opening, as we are already starting to see now.
This is the question I filed for the 13 September 2021 sitting of Parliament:
Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Health (a) how many patient-days of medical oxygen supplies are available for patients who require oxygen supplementation because of COVID-19 or other diseases; and (b) whether Singapore has sufficient oxygen manufacturing capacity to replenish our local supply should the number of COVID-19 cases increase rapidly as the economy reopens.
