<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>June 9, 2009
CONTAINING H1N1
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>No runaround please
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to yesterday's report, 'Doctors, ambulance service dismissed his condition'. The affected patient's sister said that before her brother landed at the airport, the family had called the Ministry of Health (MOH) hotline to see if MOH would take him for tests and were told to first monitor him at home.
I have a few questions:
When MOH recommended monitoring at home, why was no express advice given to keep the patient away from the public?
Why was the family told by those manning MOH's ambulance hotline that the patient had to go back to his GP for confirmation? Confirmation of what? That the high fever was not serious? That it was not Influenza A (H1N1)?
When there is an alert by the Government for citizens to take precautions, the procedure, one would think, would be precautions first - where taking the patient to hospital to ascertain the presence of H1N1 would be an essential step and not shuttling between home and GP.
Had any thought been given to the unnecessary exposure to others through this game of 'musical chairs'?
The excuse that Melbourne was not classified as an affected city then cuts no ice. Since when has the H1N1 virus - or any virus - respected the rule that it cannot emerge from a non-classified country? It is up to us to play it safe and help the medical profession to stop the spread by spotting it at the earliest. We cannot do this if we are given the runaround. Dudley Au
NO REGRET Losing $260B in 8 Months, But No $ to Buy Additional Ambulance! FCUK THE CORRUPT FAMILEE!
CONTAINING H1N1
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>No runaround please
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- show image if available --></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to yesterday's report, 'Doctors, ambulance service dismissed his condition'. The affected patient's sister said that before her brother landed at the airport, the family had called the Ministry of Health (MOH) hotline to see if MOH would take him for tests and were told to first monitor him at home.
I have a few questions:
When MOH recommended monitoring at home, why was no express advice given to keep the patient away from the public?
Why was the family told by those manning MOH's ambulance hotline that the patient had to go back to his GP for confirmation? Confirmation of what? That the high fever was not serious? That it was not Influenza A (H1N1)?
When there is an alert by the Government for citizens to take precautions, the procedure, one would think, would be precautions first - where taking the patient to hospital to ascertain the presence of H1N1 would be an essential step and not shuttling between home and GP.
Had any thought been given to the unnecessary exposure to others through this game of 'musical chairs'?
The excuse that Melbourne was not classified as an affected city then cuts no ice. Since when has the H1N1 virus - or any virus - respected the rule that it cannot emerge from a non-classified country? It is up to us to play it safe and help the medical profession to stop the spread by spotting it at the earliest. We cannot do this if we are given the runaround. Dudley Au
NO REGRET Losing $260B in 8 Months, But No $ to Buy Additional Ambulance! FCUK THE CORRUPT FAMILEE!
