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The indefinite suspension of Cordlife's FACT accreditation will remain in place at least until the ongoing investigations by MOH are completed and issues are resolved.
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung also advised parents to hold off on requests to transfer cord blood currently stored with Cordlife elsewhere, until the full impact of the breaches is known.
The FDA's approval of Casgevy, which uses the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing therapy to treat patients with sicke cell disease, opens the door to many other therapies.
There is no clear path for African patients to get access to the treatments, which have multimillion-dollar price tags and are highly complex to manufacture and deliver.