Past year was tough for healthcare workers, dealing with three Covid-19 waves, says Singapore health minister

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung with staff from Sengkang General Hospital on the first day of the Chinese New Year on Jan 22, 2023. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, Jan 22 (The Straits Times/ANN): For Singaporeans, 2022 was when life mostly returned to normalcy but this was not so for healthcare workers. They had to deal with multiple waves of Covid-19 infections, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Sunday.

“It was a very difficult year for the healthcare sector,” he told reporters at Sengkang General Hospital where he visited healthcare workers on the first day of Chinese New Year.