Singapore Red Cross Services

• Blood Donor Recruitment Programme• First Aid Public Duty & Disaster

Preparedness • International services• Non-emergency ambulance service• Red Cross Home for the Disabled• Red Cross Hostel for Handicapped Workers• Red Cross Training Centre• Red Cross Youth activities

Blood Donor Recruitment

• Encouraging Singaporeans to be blood donors to help those in need through.

• Began blood collection programme in March 1984 as Red Cross Blood Centre.

• Evolved into a fully mobile programme in 1995

• Today focuses primarily – Recruitment of blood donors. – Retention of blood donor– increase public awareness

First Aid Public Duty & Disaster Preparedness

• First Aid coverage at community and national events by the Adult Volunteer Division.

• over 300 public events a year

• SRCS works closely with the Singapore Civil Defence Force and participates in their National Emergency exercises

International services

International relief

Recent efforts – typhoon in Philippines (1990, 1995), – fire in Myanmar (1990), – cyclone in Bangladesh (1991), – severe famine in North Korea (1997)– economic crisis in Indonesia (1997, 1998), – flood victims in China (1998) – crisis in the Balkans (1999).

International services

Joint Projects with Sister Societies • Operasi Bhakti. - Batam Red Cross Chapter

– 3 projects have been undertaken since 1995 to provide health and medical relief and medical consultations to the islanders living in the Riau Islands in Indonesia.

• Operation Saonum. - Lao Red Cross– manpower assistance in the development of a

water system to provide fresh water to a remote village in Laos.

International services

• International Humanitarian Law (IHL) – Raising public awareness about IHL and its

underlying principles and the need for an understanding of IHL, even in times of peace.

• Tracing Services.– Tracing of Indo-Chinese refugees and other

displaced families from countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Myanmar and China and continues in maintaining this capability.

Non-emergency Ambulance service

• To provide non-emergency transportation for– Admission or discharged from hospitals– Require to visit hospitals for regular check-ups.

• Service hits 5,000 trips annually. • SRCS heavily subsidises the cost of needy

patients who are unable to afford payment for the service.

• Participating organisation of the CISCO Centralised Despatch Scheme through Tel : 1777

Red Cross Home

• Situated at Elizabeth Drive• Provides

– long-term residential services – short-term respite care

• Sixty severely disabled residents between the age of 10 - 40 years of age.

• Operating Expenditure of over $600,000 annually. – The residents pay a monthly fee according to the

family's income and ability.

Red Cross Hostel

• 3-room HDB flats at Blk 191 Boon Lay Drive• Accommodation and transportation for

working disabled adults at the Red Cross Hostel for Handicapped Workers.

• Hostel has facilities which are adapted to the needs of disabled people.

• The provision of this service encourages the physically disabled to be economically independent citizens.

Red Cross Training Centre

• Bringing first aid into every home– At least one member of every household in

Singapore will be trained and certified in first aid

• Courses Conducted– Standard First Aid– Refresher First Aid – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

• 4,000 individuals are trained annually.

Red Cross Youth

• Organising and conducting Uniformed Group activities for Youth to encourage – leadership skills – voluntary services.