Singapore legislation
Regulation 19
of Healthcare Services (Community Hospital Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 19
Resuscitation service
Subregulation 1
A licensee must, at all times, be capable of providing any resuscitation service to any person at any approved permanent premises.
Subregulation 2
Without limiting paragraph (1), a licensee must —
establish, implement and regularly review emergency procedures which would ensure —
the rapid and accurate assessment of any person who is in need of any resuscitation service (called in this regulation the patient); and
the timely delivery of any resuscitation service to the patient to stabilise or resuscitate the patient;
for every approved permanent premises, ensure that adequate and appropriate facilities, equipment and drugs for the implementation of any emergency procedure are readily available in all areas where patients receive accommodation, care or treatment;
ensure that 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 resuscitation service; and
ensure that every personnel who provides any resuscitation service to a patient is adequately trained —
to provide the resuscitation service in a proper, effective and safe manner; and
in the use of the equipment that is needed to deliver the resuscitation service.