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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has to stay operationally ready and will not shut down even with H1N1 cases among its personnel. Overseas training will also go on and there are no plans to change that.
Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean touched on this on Tuesday in an interview ahead of SAF Day.
There have been three clusters of H1N1 flu cases at army camps and the SAF has put measures in place to separate the units, and to contain its spread within and outside the camps.
"We want to make sure that we take care of the health and the well-being of the servicemen, so we will continue to monitor the appropriate levels of treatment, the appropriate levels of detection as provided for in MOH guidelines," said Mr Teo.
He added: "Secondly, we also want to maintain the readiness and the training tempo of the SAF. That is the requirement for the SAF. It's not unlike a company where you have to continue operations whether you are a bank, whether you are a newspaper, whether you are a manufacturing company or a TV station.
"You can't shut down, you have to continue operating, and so we have devised a set of measures that enables us to continue maintaining the readiness of the SAF, as well as continue with our training.
"The third thing, which I think that every one of us - as individuals and also as corporations - needs to do is to be socially responsible. We want to exercise social responsibility as an organisation. We want to make sure that if there are cases within the SAF, we mitigate the spread within the SAF."
- CNA/so
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