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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ON SUNDAY, I returned home from Phuket on Tiger Airways TR 155. While the plane was still taxiing towards the Budget Terminal, we heard an announcement that a passenger had been taken ill and all passengers had to wait for the doctor to arrive before we could disembark.
Initially, we were patient, given the emergency, but after 25 minutes of waiting with no doctor in sight, we began to disembark from the rear of the plane.
Why was there no medical response team onsite to attend to such emergencies? Surely, 25 minutes is not an acceptable response time for a medical condition.
I am not certain what happened to that passenger or when the doctor finally arrived, but I hope his condition was not life-threatening.
To wait that long for a medical response at the airport when a taxi ride to Changi General Hospital would take half the time was not lost on me.
Were we disadvantaged because this happened at the Budget Terminal and not at one of the other full-service terminals?
Kevin Then