“There were so many things to do and we were short of staff,” the co-founder of the 44-year-old medical group tells The Edge Singapore in a recent interview, adding that some of its doctors and nurses stationed in its hospitals and clinics abroad were brought back to support operations here. It has also stepped up
its recruitment efforts.
Dr Loo Choon Yong, executive chairman of Raffles Medical Group, says he has never experienced a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic in his half a century as a healthcare professional.
As part of the nationwide effort to fight the pandemic, Raffles Medical has redeployed a few hundred doctors and nurses to undertake other duties. These include conducting round-the-clock temperature screening at Changi Airport, swabbing of migrant workers at dormitories and caring for Covid-19 positive cases at community care and recovery facilities like the one at Changi Exhibition Centre.
