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July 8, 2009
MOH stops listing H1N1 cases
By Grace Chua
STARTING Wednesday, the Ministry of Health will no longer track the total number of Influenza A (H1N1) infections here, or the number of cases from affected countries.
That information has been removed from the ministry's flu website, http://www.h1n1.gov.sg.
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday announced that countries were no longer required to report all their confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths.
Instead, the ministry is tracking the proportion of H1N1 infections among all tested flu cases here.
As of this week, 13 per cent of patients with flu-like symptoms were infected with H1N1.
These biosurveillance statistics will be updated weekly.
The ministry is also tracking the number of H1N1 patients who have been hospitalised with more severe symptoms.
As of Tuesday, 85 such at-risk patients were in hospitals, including one man in intensive care.
My friends all say the public comms is a disaster. There is no common government message. The main culprit is MOH. Keeps changing its mind so often. They are thoroughly confused. Who in the right mind can track all the different nuances in their announcements? There is also no announcements from all the govt depts who cover all the areas in public service. All keep quiet only. In the flu website, most of the FAQs and advisories are outdated, even MOH's. Only a couple of depts have bothered to come out with "advisories", or even bother to update. So far only see MOM being proactive (or stupid?)- got some advisories and FAQs and some checklist guide. MOE got one advisory on school opening then silence. All the others? Keep quiet? All confused by MOH also? Or give up liao since everyday different story since "transiting to mitigation"? Where are we exactly anyway?? What's next? Which govt dept in charge of coordinating?
Do you think they are right? What do you think?
July 8, 2009
MOH stops listing H1N1 cases
By Grace Chua
STARTING Wednesday, the Ministry of Health will no longer track the total number of Influenza A (H1N1) infections here, or the number of cases from affected countries.
That information has been removed from the ministry's flu website, http://www.h1n1.gov.sg.
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday announced that countries were no longer required to report all their confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths.
Instead, the ministry is tracking the proportion of H1N1 infections among all tested flu cases here.
As of this week, 13 per cent of patients with flu-like symptoms were infected with H1N1.
These biosurveillance statistics will be updated weekly.
The ministry is also tracking the number of H1N1 patients who have been hospitalised with more severe symptoms.
As of Tuesday, 85 such at-risk patients were in hospitals, including one man in intensive care.
My friends all say the public comms is a disaster. There is no common government message. The main culprit is MOH. Keeps changing its mind so often. They are thoroughly confused. Who in the right mind can track all the different nuances in their announcements? There is also no announcements from all the govt depts who cover all the areas in public service. All keep quiet only. In the flu website, most of the FAQs and advisories are outdated, even MOH's. Only a couple of depts have bothered to come out with "advisories", or even bother to update. So far only see MOM being proactive (or stupid?)- got some advisories and FAQs and some checklist guide. MOE got one advisory on school opening then silence. All the others? Keep quiet? All confused by MOH also? Or give up liao since everyday different story since "transiting to mitigation"? Where are we exactly anyway?? What's next? Which govt dept in charge of coordinating?
Do you think they are right? What do you think?
