Not your garden-variety ER at Farrer Park Hospital

Triage/Isolation areas in Farrer Park Hospital. This area was set up as part of the hospital's infection control measures for patients with fever, immediately after the Ministry of Health established quarantine directives. PHOTO: FARRER PARK HOSPITAL
Triage/Isolation areas in Farrer Park Hospital. This area was set up as part of the hospital's infection control measures for patients with fever, immediately after the Ministry of Health established quarantine directives. PHOTO: FARRER PARK HOSPITAL
Chantal Sajan
Senior Correspondent
Updated
Mar 13, 2020, 05:00 PM
Published
Mar 13, 2020, 05:00 PM
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SINGAPORE- Farrer Park Hospital's rapid response to managing the coronavirus outbreak is not only to have clean room, but a green one too.

Its triage area - for assessing priority cases - is not your garden-variety emergency room.

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