Trained Medical Personnel to Explain Nature of Polymerase Chain Reaction Cycle Threshold (CT) Values to COVID-19 Patients and Release CT values to Patients

Debated in Parliament on 10 Jan 2022.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked whether medical personnel are trained to explain PCR CT values to COVID-19 patients and if it is standard procedure not to release these values even when available.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung referred to a prior written reply on the same topic from 10 January 2022, indicating the matter had already been addressed.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Health (a) whether medical personnel are trained to explain the nature of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle threshold (CT) values to COVID‐19 patients; and (b) whether it is in the standard operating procedures not to release the CT values to the COVID‐19 patients when such values are conveniently available in the lab test reports.

Ong Ye Kung

This question for written answer has been addressed by my reply to Question No 126 on the Order Paper for 10 January 2022.

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Trained Medical Personnel to Explain Nature of Polymerase Chain Reaction Cycle Threshold (CT) Values to COVID-19 Patients and Release CT values to Patients

Debated in Parliament on 10 Jan 2022.

Summary written by AI (learn more)

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked whether medical personnel are trained to explain PCR CT values to COVID-19 patients and if it is standard procedure not to release these values even when available.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung referred to a prior written reply on the same topic from 10 January 2022, indicating the matter had already been addressed.

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Ong Ye Kung

This question for written answer has been addressed by my reply to Question No 126 on the Order Paper for 10 January 2022.

Trained Medical Personnel to Explain Nature of Polymerase Chain Reaction Cycle Threshold (CT) Values to COVID-19 Patients and Release CT values to Patients

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Ong Ye Kung

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Trained Medical Personnel to Explain Nature of Polymerase Chain Reaction Cycle Threshold (CT) Values to COVID-19 Patients and Release CT values to Patients

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Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim

Ong Ye Kung

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