If the PAP government don't kill you, the hospitals will

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MOH investigating death of 103-year-old who was erroneously given 4th Covid-19 jab​

MOH said it takes a serious view of the incident and is carrying out a thorough investigation. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM

Linette Lai
Health Correspondent

Feb 4, 2022

SINGAPORE - The Health Ministry (MOH) is investigating the death of a 103-year-old woman who was erroneously given a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by a mobile vaccination team.
The woman, a nursing home resident, was admitted to Changi General Hospital on Dec 16 - three days after receiving the extra dose.
She had pneumonia and low sodium levels, and was subsequently diagnosed as having had a stroke.
The woman died on Jan 10.
An autopsy found that the main cause of death was pneumonia, with other contributing factors including stroke and coronary artery disease. The coroner has not determined if these were linked to vaccination.
However, these are natural disease processes common in seniors, said MOH in a statement on Friday (Feb 4).
MOH said it takes a serious view of the incident and is carrying out a thorough investigation, which is likely to be completed this month.

"Our preliminary findings were that the vaccine was erroneously administered due to possible irregularities in vaccination procedures and poor communication between the nursing home and the medical service provider handling the vaccination," it said.
The woman was a resident at Econ Healthcare's Chai Chee nursing home, while the vaccination was administered by a team from PanCare Medical Clinic. Both have co-funded the woman's hospital bill as a gesture of goodwill, MOH said.
The ministry added that this is the first case of mistaken identity leading to erroneous vaccination by a mobile vaccination team.
Some 152,000 such mobile vaccinations have been carried out to date.
It added that it had originally planned to announce the incident in December.
However, the woman's family had requested to withhold details which could have led to her identification.
"We have since consulted the family further and are releasing the information to provide clarity on the incident."
Both the nursing home and the mobile vaccination provider have reviewed their processes to prevent such an incident from recurring.
The Agency for Integrated Care, which facilitates vaccinations in nursing homes, has also reminded the homes to ensure proper communication with mobile vaccination teams.
"MOH has also reminded all mobile vaccination teams to perform independent identity verification and authentication before administering any vaccination," the ministry said.

 

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NUH probes case of pregnant woman who was allegedly left unattended for 2 hours and lost baby​

Facebook user Mee Pok Tah said that his wife was left "bleeding profusely" for two hours after she arrived at NUH on March 15, 2022. PHOTOS: ST FILE, MEE POK TAH/FACEBOOK

Nadine Chua

Mar 22, 2022

SINGAPORE - The National University Hospital (NUH) is investigating an incident where a woman, who was 36 weeks pregnant, was allegedly left unattended for two hours at the hospital's Emergency Medicine Department and later lost her baby.
In a Facebook post on Monday (March 21), the woman's husband said no one attended to his wife for two hours after she arrived at NUH in an ambulance on March 15 and was left "bleeding profusely" for about two hours.
In an update of his post on Monday afternoon, he said he received a call on Monday from NUH which informed him that investigations into the matter are ongoing.
He did not respond when The Straits Times tried to contact him on Facebook.
When asked about the incident, NUH directed ST to its Facebook post.
NUH said on Facebook on Tuesday morning (March 22) that it is aware of social media posts and reports regarding the incident and is in touch with the family to provide support during this difficult time.
The NUH post said: "Out of respect for the family, we seek the public's understanding not to speculate about the circumstances surrounding the incident."

The woman's husband, whose Facebook name is Mee Pok Tah, said he called an ambulance after his wife started "bleeding profusely from the birth canal" as she was showering at 9.30pm on March 15.
According to him, paramedics arrived within 10 minutes and his wife was attended to immediately. She was subsequently taken to NUH and reached the hospital at about 10.30pm.
He added that upon their arrival at NUH, a nurse was informed about the condition of his wife, who was still bleeding at the time.
He wrote: "The nurse came and only set up the monitoring device to check on my (wife's) vital signs and left. She was left there bleeding profusely and left unattended for an estimated time of two hours.
"No doctors and nurses came to check and attend to my wife for two hours and no one informed her that there (was) no bed in the maternity ward."


He said his wife was sent to a maternity ward after two hours where she was attended to by doctors and nurses, adding: "After checking on my wife and the baby, the doctors told my wife that the (baby's) heart structure was there but there was no heartbeat and hence he has passed away."
According to Mee Pok Tah's earlier post on March 16, the baby was cremated at Mandai Crematorium.

 

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Woman turned to private sector as she had to wait 5 months for colonoscopy at SGH​

Madam Tan (not her real name) went to the polyclinic when she found blood in her stools in January 2021. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI

Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent

MAR 22, 2022

SINGAPORE - Madam Tan (not her real name), 73, went to the polyclinic in January 2021 when she found blood in her stools. She had been constipated for some weeks and laxatives had not helped.
The doctor feared she might have colon cancer and wanted her to do a colonoscopy - where an endoscope is inserted into the rectum and large intestine to check for polyps and other signs of cancer.
She was referred to a specialist at Singapore General Hospital, but the appointment for the scope was five months away, in June.
Public hospitals have had to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years, which led to non-urgent elective surgery being deferred while they attended the rise in Covid-19 cases.
At the last multi-ministry task force media conference, director of medical services Kenneth Mak said that public hospitals remain stretched as they a deal with a backlog of non-Covid-19 patients.
It “reflects a debt that we had incurred over the last few months”, he said, adding that hospitals are now focusing again on providing care for these patients.
Fearing cancer, Madam Tan did not want to wait, and turned to Dr Desmond Wai, a specialist in liver and gastrointestinal diseases who has a clinic at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre. He saw her on Feb 3 and did the scope within the week.

Her worst fears were realised. Not only did she have colon cancer, it was quite advanced and had spread to her liver.
Dr Wai suggested she return to the polyclinic with the results so that she could be referred to a public hospital for subsidised treatment. He assured her that other patients diagnosed with cancer whom he had sent back to the public sector were given priority and seen within a fortnight.
But Madam Tan, who is single and has only the basic MediShield Life, feared any delay might cause her cancer to spread further.
At that time, she already had one tumour in the liver, and it was big at 5cm.
Dr Wai said a five-month delay in diagnosis could have resulted in more tumours, making it more difficult to treat. But he felt an additional two weeks to get it treated would not make much material difference.
Madam Tan's younger siblings, whom she had looked after when they were young, all agreed that she should get treated immediately in the private sector, and they and their children chipped in to help defray the cost.
Dr Wai suggested she opt for the cheaper six-bed ward at Mount Alvernia Hospital, which she did. The total bill came to $50,000 to $60,000. MediShield Life, meant for subsidised care, paid only a fraction of the bill.

After a few rounds of chemotherapy to shrink the tumours in her liver and colon, she was operated on in June last year and is now doing well. No further spread of the cancer has been detected.
Shortly after her surgery, she received a letter from SGH telling her that her colonoscopy had been rescheduled to November - another five-month wait.
Madam Tan told Dr Wai in Chinese: "Luckily I came to see you or I'd have to wait so long to find out I have cancer. And the cancer could have become worse."

 

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KKH investigating pregnant woman's claim that she waited four hours to be treated and lost her baby​

KK Women's and Children's Hospital said it is aware of an online account of the incident at its Urgent O&G Centre. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG

Nadine Chua

Mar 24, 2022

SINGAPORE - KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) is looking into a pregnant woman's claim that she waited for four hours to be treated for abdominal pains at the hospital and eventually lost her baby.
Prof Tan Hak Koon, chairman of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) at KKH, told The Straits Times on Thursday (March 24) that the hospital is aware of an online account of the incident at its Urgent O&G Centre.
"We take patient feedback seriously and are looking into this," added Prof Tan.
The woman's claims about the Feb 28 incident have been making their rounds on social media.
She said she was 20 weeks pregnant at the time, and had tested positive for Covid-19 and tried to get treatment at two private hospitals after experiencing severe abdominal pains.
She claimed she was denied treatment at both hospitals, which were not named, as she needed to be attended to by an infectious diseases gynaecologist because she had tested positive for Covid-19.
The woman subsequently arrived at KKH at 2pm to seek treatment but was told to wait at the drop-off area.

She said that at 5pm, she started to bleed but was still not attended to.
When a doctor eventually saw her at 6pm, she said she was told that she had lost her baby.
KKH is urging the patient to contact it at [email protected]
Said Prof Tan: "Despite our best efforts, we are still unable to identify the patient based on the information that is publicly available.
"We are concerned about the patient's well-being and seek the opportunity to address her concerns, and provide the necessary support."
News of this alleged incident follows a separate case where a 36-week pregnant woman who was bleeding had to wait at the National University Hospital's (NUH) emergency department (ED) for two hours and later lost her baby.
In its statement on Wednesday night, NUH apologised and said it should have done more to provide closer monitoring and care to the woman during the March 15 incident.
The hospital said it is reviewing its process of managing expectant patients admitted into the ED so that such incidents do not happen again.

 

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Forum: Family was not told father's condition had turned critical before he died of Covid-19​

Mar 25, 2022

My father was admitted to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital on Feb 23, as he had Covid-19 and was 94 years old with some underlying health conditions.
My brother accompanied him to the accident and emergency department but was told to wait at home, as admission might take some time due to a bed shortage.
The next day, my father was warded and we were informed that he needed to be put on oxygen.
On Feb 25, I called the hospital and a nurse told me that his condition seemed to have improved. That evening, a doctor called my brother and also said that my father's condition was improving.
On Feb 26, at around 1pm, I received a call from the doctor, who said that my father died half an hour ago.
I was told that he had much difficulty breathing that morning and was given treatment.
Why were the family members not informed that his condition had turned critical?

As he died from Covid-19, my father was sent home to us in a sealed bag in a sealed coffin. He died alone and we did not get to see him one last time.
I e-mailed Ng Teng Fong Hospital on March 4 to find out more, and received a reply that evening that it would investigate the matter. Since then, silence.

Jessie Lau Piak Hwee

 

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Forum: Hefty bill for five-minute ambulance trip within hospital grounds​

JAN 11, 2022

I had five molars extracted at the National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS) on Dec 29 last year, after which I developed severe reactions, namely high fever, excruciating pain, breathlessness and uncontrollable shivering.
The dental surgery team decided I should be taken by ambulance immediately to Singapore General Hospital's (SGH) accident and emergency (A&E) department for further investigation and treatment.
My daughter and I had to wait about 40 agonising minutes for me to be transported by a private ambulance. The five-minute trip from NDCS to the A&E cost $250.
Was my case not considered an emergency? We were not even consulted on whether we were willing or able to pay for a private ambulance. What if we couldn't afford it?
SGH should be able to manage its own patient conveyance facilities within the hospital instead of using an outside contractor which helps little in patients' comfort and health.

Tan Pin Ho

 

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Forum: Vaccinated son can't visit unvaccinated dad in hospital​

JAN 8, 2022

My 93-year-old unvaccinated father was admitted to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital on Wednesday for medical conditions unrelated to Covid-19.
My father has been living with my younger brother's family for the past seven years. My brother actively takes care of our father, together with the helper.
We, the children, decided not to send our father for vaccination given his age and underlying medical and general health conditions which leave him home-bound.
My brother, who is fully vaccinated, took leave from work to visit our father at the hospital on Thursday.
To his consternation, he was denied the visit at the registration counter. The reason given was that our father is unvaccinated and that it is Ministry of Health protocol that he cannot receive any visits regardless of the visitors' vaccination status.
To presume that my brother poses a risk to our father is puzzling since they live in the same household. He is in a general ward and thus exposed to other patients and their visitors. Even the healthcare professionals who attend to him might pose a risk to him as they are constantly in close contact with him.
Good patient care should embrace the love, emotional comfort and warmth that only the family can provide to the patient, especially one on his last lap. I don't think it is too much to ask for.

Cheong Hwee Leng

 

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Cancer patient dies before getting payment from CGH after winning case on appeal​

Ms Noor Azlin Abdul Rahman was 39 years old and suffering from fourth stage lung cancer. ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent

APR 5, 2019

SINGAPORE - Ms Noor Azlin Abdul Rahman, who won her fight against Changi General Hospital (CGH) for not detecting her cancer early, lost her battle with the disease on Monday morning (April 1).
She was 39 years old and suffering from fourth stage lung cancer.
In February, the Court of Appeal found the hospital negligent in its care and directed CGH "to consider the possibility of settlement in the interests of expediency and resolution".
The hearing was scheduled for April 1, but Ms Noor Azlin died before it could commence.
Her cousin, Ms Nurashikin Johan, 39, a teacher, said Ms Noor Azlin had been feeling very sick for the past two days and became breathless on Sunday afternoon.
Her funeral was held early on Monday.
Speaking in Parliament on Monday about the appeals process for doctors involved in disciplinary cases, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said he was saddened to hear about her death and offered his deepest condolences to her family.

The Court of Appeal had ruled that CGH had been negligent in not putting in place a system that ensures proper follow-up of radiological results and managing patients.
This caused a delay in the diagnosis of Ms Noor Azlin's lung cancer.
It was revealed that radiologists had twice recommended follow-up appointments after X-rays of her chest were done. But both these recommendations were dismissed by the doctors involved.

The names of the doctors who made those decisions were not on record, nor were their reasons for doing so.
The court was scathing in its comments about the hospital's "serious inadequacies" in ensuring proper follow-up procedures for patients.
As a result of her case, CGH changed some of its operations.
The Court of Appeal judgment said: "But for CGH's failure to diagnose her in July 2011... we find it unlikely that the lung cancer would have progressed to Stage IIA before resection. It was more likely than not that she would not have suffered from nodal metastasis and any consequences that may follow."
By the time her appeal was heard, the cancer had already spread to her brain.
Despite her illness, she spent time helping other cancer patients come to terms with their diagnosis.
In an interview with The Straits Times in February, she revealed that she had also taken a two-month part-time counselling course so she could better help them.
She said she had cried when her case was first dismissed by the High Court, and decided to appeal.
On her determination to keep fighting, she said: "I really had to. And I don't want the same thing to happen to anyone else. I am sad it has happened to me, but I hope this can change the system so more lives can be saved."

 

[shittypore]

All pointing to the direction tat the health system is crumbling.

 

[borom]

Well they are too busy fixing WP and thinking of ways to punish unvaccinated "criminals" -anyway no matter how many die (just look at SGH hepatitis scandal in 2015 that affected 25 , causing 8 deaths) they always get away with it.
No ministers were sacked, demoted and all happily laughing to the bank with the highest political salaries in the universe.

Just think of how fast they come out with measures and spent how much resources /monies trying to control locals via tokens, tracetogether apps, SDA's, people catching those not returning trays, machines and people manning checkpoints to enter malls/hawker centres, coffeshops and its clear PAP's top priority is control , not welfare of locals

 

[sweetiepie]

Forum: Vaccinated son can't visit unvaccinated dad in hospital​

JAN 8, 2022

My 93-year-old unvaccinated father was admitted to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital on Wednesday for medical conditions unrelated to Covid-19.
My father has been living with my younger brother's family for the past seven years. My brother actively takes care of our father, together with the helper.
We, the children, decided not to send our father for vaccination given his age and underlying medical and general health conditions which leave him home-bound.
My brother, who is fully vaccinated, took leave from work to visit our father at the hospital on Thursday.
To his consternation, he was denied the visit at the registration counter. The reason given was that our father is unvaccinated and that it is Ministry of Health protocol that he cannot receive any visits regardless of the visitors' vaccination status.
To presume that my brother poses a risk to our father is puzzling since they live in the same household. He is in a general ward and thus exposed to other patients and their visitors. Even the healthcare professionals who attend to him might pose a risk to him as they are constantly in close contact with him.
Good patient care should embrace the love, emotional comfort and warmth that only the family can provide to the patient, especially one on his last lap. I don't think it is too much to ask for.

Cheong Hwee Leng

My uncle is familiar with this sort of problem over at the visitor leegistration counters. The old farts there all just felt great being able to identify something and not letting visitor to go up. In my uncle's case it was worse . That's why My uncle always said it is better for the old fart to stay at home and get paid instead of giving trouble to people. Tolong tolong

 

[Confuseous]

"We take the matter seriously"
SOP reply. Until the next death.
Today, Forum page has letter from daughter
of a (Covid) man who was sent to hospital, came home
in a sealed coffin. Three weeks, no news from
hospital about his last hours.

 

[laksaboy]

By the way, have you all opted out of HOTA?

 

[laksaboy]

"We take the matter seriously"
SOP reply. Until the next death.
Today, Forum page has letter from daughter
of a (Covid) man who was sent to hospital, came home
in a sealed coffin. Three weeks, no news from
hospital about his last hours.

It's a standard template reply from their PR department or communications person. I highly doubt they could deviate from this standard operating procedure, their corporate lawyers wouldn't allow it.

 

[sweetiepie]

Forum: Hefty bill for five-minute ambulance trip within hospital grounds​

JAN 11, 2022

I had five molars extracted at the National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS) on Dec 29 last year, after which I developed severe reactions, namely high fever, excruciating pain, breathlessness and uncontrollable shivering.
The dental surgery team decided I should be taken by ambulance immediately to Singapore General Hospital's (SGH) accident and emergency (A&E) department for further investigation and treatment.
My daughter and I had to wait about 40 agonising minutes for me to be transported by a private ambulance. The five-minute trip from NDCS to the A&E cost $250.
Was my case not considered an emergency? We were not even consulted on whether we were willing or able to pay for a private ambulance. What if we couldn't afford it?
SGH should be able to manage its own patient conveyance facilities within the hospital instead of using an outside contractor which helps little in patients' comfort and health.

Tan Pin Ho

My uncle is also familiar with this sort of things. In this case it means that he was not serious enough that leequire admission becas the amubulearn will offset the cost if the patient is to be warded. This means it is not an emergency. As such if he is wise like my uncle, he would have hailed a taxi to sgh.

 

[sweetiepie]

MOH investigating death of 103-year-old who was erroneously given 4th Covid-19 jab​

MOH said it takes a serious view of the incident and is carrying out a thorough investigation. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM

Linette Lai
Health Correspondent

Feb 4, 2022

SINGAPORE - The Health Ministry (MOH) is investigating the death of a 103-year-old woman who was erroneously given a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by a mobile vaccination team.
The woman, a nursing home resident, was admitted to Changi General Hospital on Dec 16 - three days after receiving the extra dose.
She had pneumonia and low sodium levels, and was subsequently diagnosed as having had a stroke.
The woman died on Jan 10.
An autopsy found that the main cause of death was pneumonia, with other contributing factors including stroke and coronary artery disease. The coroner has not determined if these were linked to vaccination.
However, these are natural disease processes common in seniors, said MOH in a statement on Friday (Feb 4).
MOH said it takes a serious view of the incident and is carrying out a thorough investigation, which is likely to be completed this month.

"Our preliminary findings were that the vaccine was erroneously administered due to possible irregularities in vaccination procedures and poor communication between the nursing home and the medical service provider handling the vaccination," it said.
The woman was a resident at Econ Healthcare's Chai Chee nursing home, while the vaccination was administered by a team from PanCare Medical Clinic. Both have co-funded the woman's hospital bill as a gesture of goodwill, MOH said.
The ministry added that this is the first case of mistaken identity leading to erroneous vaccination by a mobile vaccination team.
Some 152,000 such mobile vaccinations have been carried out to date.
It added that it had originally planned to announce the incident in December.
However, the woman's family had requested to withhold details which could have led to her identification.
"We have since consulted the family further and are releasing the information to provide clarity on the incident."
Both the nursing home and the mobile vaccination provider have reviewed their processes to prevent such an incident from recurring.
The Agency for Integrated Care, which facilitates vaccinations in nursing homes, has also reminded the homes to ensure proper communication with mobile vaccination teams.
"MOH has also reminded all mobile vaccination teams to perform independent identity verification and authentication before administering any vaccination," the ministry said.

My uncle is also familiar with this sort of things. Damn my uncle should be the spokesman leepresenting sinkies KNN
This is the leesult of engaging part timers . The protocol before doing anything to patient is to ask for IC and name. However this patient was probablee too old for the q&a so the part timers just let it pass .

 

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[Rus]

With all these happenings isn't it good? Without them PAP will be boasting again.

 

[sweetiepie]

My uncle is familiar with this sort of problem over at the visitor leegistration counters. The old farts there all just felt great being able to identify something and not letting visitor to go up. In my uncle's case it was worse . That's why My uncle always said it is better for the old fart to stay at home and get paid instead of giving trouble to people. Tolong tolong

These old fucking farts cannot even see the computer screen properlee and have to sit straight acting professional with eye glancing down the spectacles and talking nonsense at the same time.

 

[mojito]

Too bad if u can't afford private. Healthcare for the rich; Hellcare for the poor.