jonesftw
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I should make one more point about COVID, which is that we have finally completed a very long process of awarding all our COVID heroes. As you know, this is a crisis of a generation. It is a concerted national effort because so many people were involved. We have conferred recognition and awards to over 110,000 people, many of whom are healthcare workers. All of them are heroes who have worked together to help us overcome this crisis.
Unfortunately, we hear of news that people are selling their medals. I think it is a very small minority. I will say this: It is wrong to sell your medals. It is with great appreciation and respect that we selected the names and conferred the medals on these deserving people. Therefore we hope too, that you reciprocate the respect and cherish the medal and the recognition. There are others who wrote in too. Some are individual doctors or nurses who wrote in to say that I have contributed but somehow, I was left out. We will look into these cases. As you know, we try to be as inclusive as possible in recognising this national effort and everyone involved in this national effort. Over 110,000 recipients – that is how inclusive we have been.
We had a nomination process. We had an appeal process and one appeal after another, trying to include as many as possible. It is possible that we missed out some and if we do, that exercise is over but we will try our best to make it up as much as possible. There is however one anonymous group who apparently are doctors in isolation wards. They have claimed that they have also been missed out. But they are anonymous so I do invite them to please give us your names and the hospital you worked in, and we will certainly look at your cases objectively.
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlig...g-of-woodlands-health-22-december-2023-4.00pm
Unfortunately, we hear of news that people are selling their medals. I think it is a very small minority. I will say this: It is wrong to sell your medals. It is with great appreciation and respect that we selected the names and conferred the medals on these deserving people. Therefore we hope too, that you reciprocate the respect and cherish the medal and the recognition. There are others who wrote in too. Some are individual doctors or nurses who wrote in to say that I have contributed but somehow, I was left out. We will look into these cases. As you know, we try to be as inclusive as possible in recognising this national effort and everyone involved in this national effort. Over 110,000 recipients – that is how inclusive we have been.
We had a nomination process. We had an appeal process and one appeal after another, trying to include as many as possible. It is possible that we missed out some and if we do, that exercise is over but we will try our best to make it up as much as possible. There is however one anonymous group who apparently are doctors in isolation wards. They have claimed that they have also been missed out. But they are anonymous so I do invite them to please give us your names and the hospital you worked in, and we will certainly look at your cases objectively.
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlig...g-of-woodlands-health-22-december-2023-4.00pm
