TIMELINE FOR TESTING IS” REASONABLE”
According to Dr. Janil, MOH has a role in legislation and cooperation.
To ensure that the findings are accurate, he said,” The ministry will be supervising the appropriate implementation of further testing in the affected tank.”
Due to the size and power of the samples, the tests will taking another year to complete.
Dr. Janil responded to a question about whether the tests could be speeded up by mentioning the correction steps Cordlife has been asked to implement to lessen the likelihood of “warming events.”
MOH may try to minimise the moment taken, but maintain the quality of the results, he said.
When attempting to determine the potency of the cord blood system, retrieving and testing must be done very carefully to ensure that the potency of the sample is confirmed.
” For all of these reasons, and therefore consequently the examination and assessment of the results, it does seem that the one- time timeline is reasonable”, said Dr Janil.
We “know the have” to move this along as quickly as possible, but I believe it is crucial that everyone involved have confidence in the outcomes of the procedure when it is finished.
The government added that it will carefully follow the company’s progress with correcting and improving its communication with its customers and the general public.
It will require Cordlife to effectively verify and apply its new temperature monitoring system, re-examine its cord blood unit processing procedure, and strengthen staff supervision and training.  ,
Although each has its own requirements, Singapore Cord Blood Bank, Stemcord, and Cryoviva are able to and willing to assist kids in transferring their cord blood from Cordlife.
They only accept cord blood models that have been demonstrated to be also useful, and receiving cord blood banks are unlikely to be able to guarantee cord blood units that have been removed from Cordlife’s database.
” So there is some danger to the customer, the kids, associated with making the decision for this move, and it will also take some time. It’s certainly a small choice to be taken gently.”
Parents should take caution when making a real transfer at sub-zero temperatures because of the operational complexity of making a physical transfer, especially when the cord blood cannot be determined to be affected, according to Dr. Janil.
Five vehicles at Cordlife, containing about 14, 000 cable blood products, have been assessed to be at reduced- risk of being affected.