Mr Pritam Singh (Aljunied): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I think the Prime Minister announced the expansion of Active Ageing Centres at his National Day Rally last year. And in view of what would be significant manpower requirements, is there a plan that the Ministry has to ramp up or mobilise this manpower and what sort of numbers are we looking at from the Ministry’s standpoint?
Ms Rahayu Mahzam: I thank the Member for the question. Indeed, manpower is an aspect that we have been monitoring quite closely, especially as we transform the efforts in the healthcare sector, in particular, with ageing. Yesterday, we had also another discussion on the Allied Health Professionals. So, we are looking at the different sectors, the different services that we need to have in place and the different manpower.
With regard to the statistics, Sir, I do not have the data on hand. Perhaps the Member would want to file a separate Parliamentary Question on this.
Ministry of Health
28 February 2024
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