Development of an enhanced acute care surgery service in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided humanity with enormous healthcare and economic challenges. The epicentre has shifted from China to Europe and the United States with over 3 million people infected and 200,000 deaths. The Singapore government escalated its ‘Disease outbreak response system condition (DORCSCON) level to Orange on February 7 instigating containment strategies of isolating infected cases, aggressive contact tracing and widespread testing [1]. Despite mitigation efforts such as border closures, travel restrictions, enforced social dista ncing and a virtual lockdown on April 7, the number of infected cases in Singapore has risen sharply to over 10,000 (1900/million) primarily via community spread.

Source: Injury - June 23, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Sachin Mathur, Chung Fai Jeremy Ng, Fangju Koh, Mingzhe Cai, Gautham Palaniappan, Yun Le Linn, Huiling Linda Lim, Ramu Lakshman, Xiao Shuang Ling, Sock Teng Chin, Hiang Khoon Tan Source Type: research