Top 5 Healthcare Stories of 2024 and What to Expect in 2025

This year saw significant developments in Singapore’s healthcare landscape, addressing pandemic preparedness, telemedicine, and more.

Here are five major healthcare stories from 2024, and what we can expect in 2025:

1. Preparing for the Next Pandemic

In March, Singapore amended the Infectious Diseases Act to allow for a more flexible approach to public health threats.

A new “Public Health Threat” category was introduced alongside “Public Health Emergency”

These changes, along with increased surveillance efforts focused on four diseases:

H5N1 bird flu, Covid-

mpox clade I, and a mystery disease in Congo, now identified as severe malaria.