Singapore legislation

Regulation 23

of Healthcare Services (Nuclear Medicine Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 23

Essential life-saving measures must be available

Subregulation 1

A licensee must —

(a)

ensure that adequate and appropriate facilities, equipment and drugs for the provision of any essential life‑saving measure to a patient are readily available at every approved permanent premises; and

(b)

at all times, be capable of providing any essential life‑saving measure to any patient who is at risk of death.

Subregulation 2

Without limiting paragraph (1), the licensee must ensure that —

(a)

only resuscitation drugs that have not passed their expiry dates and are fit for use and resuscitation equipment that is fit for use are made available for use in the provision of any essential life‑saving measure; and

(b)

every personnel who provides any essential life‑saving measure to a patient is adequately trained —

(i)

to provide the essential life‑saving measure in a proper, effective and safe manner; and

(ii)

in the use of the equipment that is needed to deliver the essential life‑saving measure.