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OYK wants to do more. 
Today is World Diabetes Day (WDD).
It has been six years since we declared War on Diabetes. While the prevalence rates of most chronic illnesses are going up, diabetes has remained stable.
But we can do more.
The Government is taking the lead to support and empower individuals to take better care of their health and stave off chronic diseases.
With #HealthierSG, we will fully subsidise the key elements of preventive care; mobilise GPs to handle diabetic cases; and enhance the incentives for healthy living.
We will also reduce sugar consumption by rolling out the Nutri-Grade mark for prepacked beverages with higher sugar and saturated fat by the end of the year.
The Private and People sectors will be roped in as well. With Healthier SG being a national strategy, we are keen to scale up novel ideas into national initiatives. Community partners will also have greater opportunities to make a difference.
One such partner is Diabetes Singapore. Joined their WDD event yesterday and saw their good work. I look forward to our continued partnership.
Ong Ye Kung
1 d ·Today is World Diabetes Day (WDD).
It has been six years since we declared War on Diabetes. While the prevalence rates of most chronic illnesses are going up, diabetes has remained stable.
But we can do more.
The Government is taking the lead to support and empower individuals to take better care of their health and stave off chronic diseases.
With #HealthierSG, we will fully subsidise the key elements of preventive care; mobilise GPs to handle diabetic cases; and enhance the incentives for healthy living.
We will also reduce sugar consumption by rolling out the Nutri-Grade mark for prepacked beverages with higher sugar and saturated fat by the end of the year.
The Private and People sectors will be roped in as well. With Healthier SG being a national strategy, we are keen to scale up novel ideas into national initiatives. Community partners will also have greater opportunities to make a difference.
One such partner is Diabetes Singapore. Joined their WDD event yesterday and saw their good work. I look forward to our continued partnership.
OYK wishes little ones a wonderful life ahead. 
What do Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill have in common?
They were both born prematurely, also known as “preemies”.
Today is World Prematurity Day (WPD). Over the weekend, I joined the premature children, their families and the healthcare workers of KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) at the Singapore Zoo.
KKH has been organising this event since 1997 to mark WPD, highlight the challenges faced by premature children and families, and celebrate their courage and achievements.
The best sanctuary of a new life is the mother’s womb, but when the baby is prematurely delivered, society provides the next best alternative, in KKH and the community of mutual support.
May all our little ones stay happy and healthy, and I wish you a wonderful life ahead.
Ong Ye Kung
10 h ·What do Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill have in common?
They were both born prematurely, also known as “preemies”.
Today is World Prematurity Day (WPD). Over the weekend, I joined the premature children, their families and the healthcare workers of KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) at the Singapore Zoo.
KKH has been organising this event since 1997 to mark WPD, highlight the challenges faced by premature children and families, and celebrate their courage and achievements.
The best sanctuary of a new life is the mother’s womb, but when the baby is prematurely delivered, society provides the next best alternative, in KKH and the community of mutual support.
May all our little ones stay happy and healthy, and I wish you a wonderful life ahead.
from straitstimes.com:
With the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore will further enhance its preparedness against future infectious disease outbreaks. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent
UPDATED
5 NOV 2022, 11:33 AM SGT
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SINGAPORE – A dedicated research programme launched on Thursday with funding of $100 million over five years will allow Singapore to pull together pandemic experts from various fields to respond to future infectious disease outbreaks.
The Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response, or Prepare, will link up experts from various disciplines as well as government agencies to tackle such threats.
It will also reach beyond the nation’s shores to strengthen research partnerships, share information and knowledge, and collaborate with institutes internationally.
Prepare will be led by Professor Wang Linfa from Duke-NUS Medical School, with Professor David Lye from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), which is hosting the programme, as his deputy.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, who officially launched Prepare, which was set up about a year back, said adaptability has been a hallmark of Singapore’s response to Covid-19, with scientific evidence and data guiding decisions every step of the way.
With the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore will further enhance its preparedness against future infectious disease outbreaks, he said, and Prepare will be one of the key initiatives.
Although Singapore had been preparing for the next pandemic after the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, there were still gaps that hindered its performance.
Prof Wang said that after Singapore obtained a viral sample from the first Covid-19 patient here, it took three days to get permission to isolate and sequence the virus.
This was already fast compared with the amount of time this typically takes, but it nevertheless was a delay. The genomic sequence is needed to create diagnostic tools as well as vaccines.
Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, who co-chairs the Prepare steering committee, said: “When we look at a pandemic, we realise we need answers and effective solutions in a very short time.”
Prof Tan, who is chief health scientist at the Ministry of Health, said clinicians need guidelines on how to manage patients.
NCID executive director Leo Yee Sin said it was thanks to good, established networking that Singapore was able to link up with the National Institutes of Health in the United States to find out what treatments work.
Before that, she said, “we were just using everything”.
Speed is really critical, said Prof Tan, and that is the most compelling reason for having Prepare.
The only way to get that speed is if all the necessary background work is done.
This includes legal frameworks, such as how to rapidly share patient data while keeping confidentiality intact, so researchers can work on solutions. It means training up expertise and “keeping them warm”, said Prof Tan, because the next pandemic might be a decade or more in coming.
Meanwhile, there are many “intermediate” things that such upskilling can achieve, such as discoveries that will help in understanding future threats better, he said.
This will allow scientists and researchers to “do exciting things” such as creating new drugs or vaccines that could give them international renown.
Prof Wang agreed that Prepare is not just about waiting for the next pandemic. Skills developed will also be useful in smaller outbreaks, whether within Singapore or in the region – hence also the need for good networking.
He said that internationally, scientists have identified 20 viruses that could potentially jump to humans and cause a pandemic. Singapore does not have the funds to study all of them, but could do in-depth studies into one or two of them, so the information would be there should such a jump occur.
Associate Professor Gladys Tan, director of the Biological Defence Programme at DSO National Laboratories, likened Prepare to the military, which keeps up its training so it is always ready for a war that hopefully will never come.
Singapore launches national plan to enable faster response to future pandemics
With the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore will further enhance its preparedness against future infectious disease outbreaks. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent
UPDATED
5 NOV 2022, 11:33 AM SGT
FacebookTwitter
SINGAPORE – A dedicated research programme launched on Thursday with funding of $100 million over five years will allow Singapore to pull together pandemic experts from various fields to respond to future infectious disease outbreaks.
The Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response, or Prepare, will link up experts from various disciplines as well as government agencies to tackle such threats.
It will also reach beyond the nation’s shores to strengthen research partnerships, share information and knowledge, and collaborate with institutes internationally.
Prepare will be led by Professor Wang Linfa from Duke-NUS Medical School, with Professor David Lye from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), which is hosting the programme, as his deputy.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, who officially launched Prepare, which was set up about a year back, said adaptability has been a hallmark of Singapore’s response to Covid-19, with scientific evidence and data guiding decisions every step of the way.
With the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore will further enhance its preparedness against future infectious disease outbreaks, he said, and Prepare will be one of the key initiatives.
Although Singapore had been preparing for the next pandemic after the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, there were still gaps that hindered its performance.
Prof Wang said that after Singapore obtained a viral sample from the first Covid-19 patient here, it took three days to get permission to isolate and sequence the virus.
This was already fast compared with the amount of time this typically takes, but it nevertheless was a delay. The genomic sequence is needed to create diagnostic tools as well as vaccines.
Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, who co-chairs the Prepare steering committee, said: “When we look at a pandemic, we realise we need answers and effective solutions in a very short time.”
Prof Tan, who is chief health scientist at the Ministry of Health, said clinicians need guidelines on how to manage patients.
NCID executive director Leo Yee Sin said it was thanks to good, established networking that Singapore was able to link up with the National Institutes of Health in the United States to find out what treatments work.
Before that, she said, “we were just using everything”.
Speed is really critical, said Prof Tan, and that is the most compelling reason for having Prepare.
The only way to get that speed is if all the necessary background work is done.
This includes legal frameworks, such as how to rapidly share patient data while keeping confidentiality intact, so researchers can work on solutions. It means training up expertise and “keeping them warm”, said Prof Tan, because the next pandemic might be a decade or more in coming.
Meanwhile, there are many “intermediate” things that such upskilling can achieve, such as discoveries that will help in understanding future threats better, he said.
This will allow scientists and researchers to “do exciting things” such as creating new drugs or vaccines that could give them international renown.
Prof Wang agreed that Prepare is not just about waiting for the next pandemic. Skills developed will also be useful in smaller outbreaks, whether within Singapore or in the region – hence also the need for good networking.
He said that internationally, scientists have identified 20 viruses that could potentially jump to humans and cause a pandemic. Singapore does not have the funds to study all of them, but could do in-depth studies into one or two of them, so the information would be there should such a jump occur.
Associate Professor Gladys Tan, director of the Biological Defence Programme at DSO National Laboratories, likened Prepare to the military, which keeps up its training so it is always ready for a war that hopefully will never come.
OYK wants to go kosong. 
"Once you go kosong, you won't turn back."
Tune in tonight 9pm to “A Conversation with Minister” on Mediacorp Channel 8 to find out why.
#HealthierSG
Ong Ye Kung shared an episode of 空中访民情2022.
8 h ·"Once you go kosong, you won't turn back."
Tune in tonight 9pm to “A Conversation with Minister” on Mediacorp Channel 8 to find out why.
#HealthierSG
OYK was able to have a proper Deepavali community celebration.
Finally, we are able to have a proper Deepavali community celebration. Even so, we had to hold it at a pavilion instead of the bigger premise at the Community Club - because we converted the CC to become an infant vaccination centre. This is community spirit, making some sacrifices for the benefit of the larger community. With this spirit, good will always triumph over evil.
#MakeSembawangSpecial
#OKwithOYK
Ong Ye Kung
5 h ·Finally, we are able to have a proper Deepavali community celebration. Even so, we had to hold it at a pavilion instead of the bigger premise at the Community Club - because we converted the CC to become an infant vaccination centre. This is community spirit, making some sacrifices for the benefit of the larger community. With this spirit, good will always triumph over evil.
#MakeSembawangSpecial
#OKwithOYK
OYK joined the Tan Chin Tuan Nursing Award for Enrolled Nurses Award Ceremony. 
Joined the Tan Chin Tuan Nursing Award for Enrolled Nurses Award Ceremony today.
Our healthcare workers, like our nurses, have been carrying the burden of the pandemic. We appreciate them and are looking to lighten their workload by tackling the manpower shortage.
By the end of next year, we will progressively add close to 4,000 new nurses. This is about 10% of our current nursing workforce, and 700 more additional nurses compared to 2021.
Of this number, it will be about 60:40 foreign to local nurses, to make up for the slowdown in foreign nurse recruitment. Nonetheless, the large majority of our nursing workforce will continue to be local through our nursing school intakes and mid-career training programmes.
Enrolled nurses play a critical role in our healthcare system. To all recipients, my heartiest congratulations to you. May your stories continue to inspire many others.
Ong Ye Kung
3 h ·Joined the Tan Chin Tuan Nursing Award for Enrolled Nurses Award Ceremony today.
Our healthcare workers, like our nurses, have been carrying the burden of the pandemic. We appreciate them and are looking to lighten their workload by tackling the manpower shortage.
By the end of next year, we will progressively add close to 4,000 new nurses. This is about 10% of our current nursing workforce, and 700 more additional nurses compared to 2021.
Of this number, it will be about 60:40 foreign to local nurses, to make up for the slowdown in foreign nurse recruitment. Nonetheless, the large majority of our nursing workforce will continue to be local through our nursing school intakes and mid-career training programmes.
Enrolled nurses play a critical role in our healthcare system. To all recipients, my heartiest congratulations to you. May your stories continue to inspire many others.
OYK opened a park. 
Sembawang is well known for its parks. We have one with swings, slides and water play.
Montreal Park in Sembawang was officially opened last weekend after almost three years of upgrading, and adds to our collection of special parks.
The Montreal Park retains the natural terrain of the place, but yet is barrier free.
It is also at the intersection of various heritage trials in Sembawang. Head off from the park in different directions, and you can discover part of Singapore’s and Sembawang’s history.
#MakeSembawangSpecial #OkwithOYK
Ong Ye Kung
10 h ·Sembawang is well known for its parks. We have one with swings, slides and water play.
Montreal Park in Sembawang was officially opened last weekend after almost three years of upgrading, and adds to our collection of special parks.
The Montreal Park retains the natural terrain of the place, but yet is barrier free.
It is also at the intersection of various heritage trials in Sembawang. Head off from the park in different directions, and you can discover part of Singapore’s and Sembawang’s history.
#MakeSembawangSpecial #OkwithOYK
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