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Singapore hospitals take steps to protect patients from haze; air quality forecast to improve
Elderly patients closely monitored; portable air-con units installed in subsidised wards
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Public sector hospitals have been closing the windows in subsidised wards and ventilating them with portable air-conditioning units to protect patients from the haze.
They are also actively monitoring their patients, many of whom are elderly and hence more susceptible to the effects of haze, so that remedial action can be taken immediately.
