{"id":987524712,"date":"2021-03-12T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/budget-2021-s4-8b-of-s11b-covid-19-resilience-package-for-public-health\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:33:40","slug":"budget-2021-s4-8b-of-s11b-covid-19-resilience-package-for-public-health","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/budget-2021-s4-8b-of-s11b-covid-19-resilience-package-for-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021: S$4.8b of S$11b Covid-19 Resilience Package for public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.sg\/\">Singapore Government&#8217;s<\/a> commitment to safeguarding public health and the future of its citizens especially in the wake of COVID 19 can be seen in the&nbsp;over 40% share of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mof.gov.sg\/singaporebudget\">Budget<\/a> that goes to the COVID-19 Resilience Package.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Mr. Heng Swee Keat, the Deputy Prime Minister reasserted that \u2018the Government is giving foremost importance to Singaporeans\u2019 public health, safe reopening measures and sustaining momentum for recovery after the Covid-19 Pandemic. More than half of the S$4.8 billion allocated to the Resilience Package is dedicated to ensuring strengthening of the public health system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>One of the major focus areas here is the raise in salary of healthcare workers across all public hospitals, polyclinics and long-term care service providers this there. This will surely go a long way in providing the much-needed incentive and motivation to overworked healthcare workers in the country.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span>Read the entire piece <a href=\"https:\/\/theindependent.sg\/budget-2021-s4-8b-of-s11b-covid-19-resilience-package-for-public-health-healthcare-workers-to-get-pay-rise\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@victorhwn725\">Victor He\/Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singapore Government&#8217;s commitment to safeguarding public health and the future of its citizens especially in the wake of COVID 19 can be seen in the&nbsp;over 40% share of this year\u2019s Budget that goes to the COVID-19 Resilience Package. Mr. Heng Swee Keat, the Deputy Prime Minister reasserted that \u2018the Government is giving foremost importance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,2316,124,129,132,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524712"}],"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=987524712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}