{"id":987524646,"date":"2021-04-20T03:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/new-2000-payout-for-those-who-need-hospitalisation-after-covid-19-vaccine-shot\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:31:29","slug":"new-2000-payout-for-those-who-need-hospitalisation-after-covid-19-vaccine-shot","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/new-2000-payout-for-those-who-need-hospitalisation-after-covid-19-vaccine-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"New $2,000 payout for those who need hospitalisation after Covid-19 vaccine shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who suffer from serious side effects related to their Covid-19 vaccination can apply for financial assistance from Wednesday (March 17).<\/p>\n<p>Their applications under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/health\/financial-help-for-those-suffering-from-serious-side-effects-related-to-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme for Covid-19 vaccination (Vifap)<\/a>&nbsp;will need to be accompanied by medical information on the serious side effect from the doctor treating them, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who need inpatient hospitalisation and medical intervention, and who subsequently recover, will get $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Those who require admission to high-dependency or intensive care wards and subsequently recover will get $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Those who die or suffer permanent severe disability as a result of the vaccination will get $225,000.<\/p>\n<p>MOH had already announced the two higher payout tiers on Jan 28, but not the lowest tier of $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moh.gov.sg\/covid-19\/vaccination\/vifap\">&nbsp;Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme for Covid-19 vaccination (Vifap)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the original aritcle published in the Strait Times here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Courtesy: NDTV<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about the Covid 19 vaccines and post vaccination costs in SIngapore? Let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who suffer from serious side effects related to their Covid-19 vaccination can apply for financial assistance from Wednesday (March 17). Their applications under the&nbsp;Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme for Covid-19 vaccination (Vifap)&nbsp;will need to be accompanied by medical information on the serious side effect from the doctor treating them, the Ministry of Health (MOH)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,123,2316,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}