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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MY 74-YEAR-OLD mother was scheduled for a cataract operation (day surgery) at Changi General Hospital last Friday.
Her operation was set for 12.30pm and she was told to abstain from food and drink from 6am on the day of operation.
We arrived at the registration counter at 12.05pm that day. We patiently waited our turn until 1.05pm when I asked a nurse to check why my mother had not been told to have her eyes dilated to prepare for the operation.
The nurses at the station said there were too many patients that day and that was why my mother's operation was delayed. Also, there were not enough beds for her to lie down.
In the end, she had her cataract operation only at about 4.30pm and the nurse called me at 6.05pm to take her home. The whole process was over when we finally arrived home at 7pm.
If the doctors cannot perform so many cataract operations in a day, why schedule so many patients?
My mother did not have any food or drink from 6am until after her operation in the evening. Imagine her agony till then. Chan Yoke Meng (Mdm)
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MY 74-YEAR-OLD mother was scheduled for a cataract operation (day surgery) at Changi General Hospital last Friday.
Her operation was set for 12.30pm and she was told to abstain from food and drink from 6am on the day of operation.
We arrived at the registration counter at 12.05pm that day. We patiently waited our turn until 1.05pm when I asked a nurse to check why my mother had not been told to have her eyes dilated to prepare for the operation.
The nurses at the station said there were too many patients that day and that was why my mother's operation was delayed. Also, there were not enough beds for her to lie down.
In the end, she had her cataract operation only at about 4.30pm and the nurse called me at 6.05pm to take her home. The whole process was over when we finally arrived home at 7pm.
If the doctors cannot perform so many cataract operations in a day, why schedule so many patients?
My mother did not have any food or drink from 6am until after her operation in the evening. Imagine her agony till then. Chan Yoke Meng (Mdm)
