SINGAPORE: A new mobile swab station (MSS) will make it safer and faster for healthcare workers to test migrant workers for COVID-19 at dormitories.
The MSS is a Singapore Armed Forces cross country ambulance mounted at the rear, with a transparent booth with gloved holes for the tester's hands. The tester sits inside the ambulance, while the migrant worker stands outside.The MSS is developed by the Defence Science and Technology Agency , the Army's Maintenance and Engineering Support and ST Engineering.
The MSS can also be deployed faster. It takes about 15 minutes to deploy, compared to the 30 minutes needed to set up the outdoor tents and tables typically used as testing facilities in many dormitories.Since the MSS is essentially a vehicle, it can be re-deployed to different sites quicker, compared to packing up and loading the tents and tables in a separate vehicle.
Whether more mobile swap stations will be deployed to more locations will depend on the operational needs of the inter-agency task force handling the outbreak in dormitories.built dormitories, there is a need for swab operations to be set up at different sites on a daily basis," the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
Since Saturday, 10 of such scanners have been deployed to 38 sites islandwide, covering about 2,000 patients."Our next step is to bring that registration counter into the cabin as well so that people need to be outside and everything can be done within the cabin," its head of capability development Sebastian Lim, 45, said.
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