HOTA & DIED Ang Moh in SG

[hotabandit]

Apr 2, 2010
Aussie dies after transplant
Blood clotting gene also caused first transplant to fail: S'pore doctor
By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent
Ms Claire Murray, 25, underwent a successful transplant last month. -- PHOTO: THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
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AN AUSTRALIAN woman who flew to Singapore for a second liver transplant has died. Ms Claire Murray, 25, underwent a successful transplant last month. But two weeks after she received a part of her aunt's liver, blood clots started to form in her veins.

On Wednesday, she underwent further surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital to remove the clots. But even as the surgeon, Dr J. Prema Raj, was removing the clots, others were forming.

Ms Murray, an unwed mother of two with a history of heroin addiction, became a lightning rod for controversy after her first liver transplant in Australia last September, using an organ from a dead donor, failed.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_509708.html

 

[Ah Guan]

"Opelation was a success but patient encountered a slight case of death.
We will still collect $250k from Kevin Ludd's gahmen"

 

[downgrader]

what?! we operate on foreign heroin addicts and our own patients die waiting on corridors?

oh man, this country is getting more and more ridiculous

 

[Yoshitei]

what?! we operate on foreign heroin addicts and our own patients die waiting on corridors?

oh man, this country is getting more and more ridiculous

She paid for the surgery at a private hospital and the donor was her own aunt.

So really... I you had the money and a willing donor, I don't think anyone can stop.

 

[jw5]

She paid for the surgery at a private hospital and the donor was her own aunt.

So really... I you had the money and a willing donor, I don't think anyone can stop.

Wasn't it reported that her family got an interest free loan from the Australian government?

 

[Yoshitei]

Wasn't it reported that her family got an interest free loan from the Australian government?

Yeah, it was the Australian government who provide the interest free loan and the came to Singapore for treatment.

There is a disconnect between downgrader's comments and the facts of the case.

It is of course unfortunate that unlike the Australian government, the Singapore system would not provide such loans for life threatening surgeries - but I may be wrong here.

 

[Watchman]

Failed or succeed there still is a transaction fee .

Surgeons screwed up and blames drug background !