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6. Do you perform COVID-19 test for palliative care

patients who would like to return home to their family
before their departure?

SN Sunita: When patients are discharged and are allowed to return home, we would have a set of
questionnaires for patients or caregivers
ie. COVID-19 screening questionnaire: any recent symptoms like fever, cough, flu,
diarrhoea; any recent mass gathering; and recent exposure to COVID-19 patients; any family
members or relatives who have recently returned from overseas

We would not conduct the COVID-19 RT-PCR test itself.
These tests would only be conducted at hospital on patients with severe acute respiratory
illness according to MOH SOP.

Therefore, we rely on the checklists alone, and we require patients to be very truthful in
answering the questions.