Bright Vision Community Hospital, located off Yio Chu Kang Road, was converted into a COVID-19 treatment center during the crisis. It is not in use now.
It was founded in 2001, but due to managing issues, ownership was transferred to Sing Health, Singapore’s largest group of medical organisations, ten years later.
According to Associate Professor Andy Ho, head of psychiatry at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Social Sciences, there might be rooms for older people with dementia, those with learning disability, and other types of cognitive decline when the facility is converted into a clinical care house.
” I would even think there could be units that are fitted for people who are in change, who might be ready to reintegrate into the area but need more time to receive attention and be able to make themselves for that change,” he continued.
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In Singapore, there are now eight nursing houses with medical beds, with a total capacity of about 1,400.
These include St Andrew’s Nursing Home, Sunlove Home and Surya Home, located in the vicinity of Buangkok.
A medical treatment facility will be established, according to the MOH’s announcement in October of last year.
The Institute of Mental Health ( IMH), which has almost 2, 000 psychiatric beds, is insufficient to meet current needs, according to Jeremy Lim, a public health specialist.
As an severe medical doctor, IMH likewise caters to a whole variety of patients.
Dr. Lim continued,” Singapore can ramp up power much faster than we normally would be able to.”
” In this particular occasion, given that there’s an immediate need, particularly after the pandemic, it makes sense to investigate some of these re-purposing choices, even as Singapore perhaps in the near future glance at purpose-built services”, he noted.
” I have a feeling that once the facility is operational, it will be filled out a little bit sooner because we, like the rest of the world, have not anticipated the mental health crisis,” I have a suspicion.
Assoc Prof. Ho added that more people are becoming aware of and receiving support for mental health issues in the community.
” There used to be a lot of stigma. There used to be a lot of taboo, but now a lot of that is decreasing, and people are more willing to receive service or ask for help”, he said.
” So I would assume that all of these services will be in demand in the future,” she said.