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Singapore hospitals and doctors don't really care about the welfare and interest of the patients they treat now.
Too lazy to handle the red tape of the drug batches and expiry dates, hospitals and doctors would not accept donations of unused drugs because they don't have the technology/ burden to track unique batch numbers (in case of batch recall) even for patented drugs worth "thousands of dollars".
So healthcare is now a wasteful multi billion dollar business as well, abusing the reasons of red tape to profit much more?
Doctors are like bankers and car salesman, but have little interest in treatment of poor, or poor don't receive treatment or are dissuaded from doing so?
Then the government says healthcare costs is increasing, so they start robbing the people by increasing GST taxes, incurring more stress to society and the economy, such that people develop more cancers....
We live in a cold and materialistic world where doctors dream of becoming and behave like bankers as well.
If the government is disinterested in the recycling of unused patent medications towards their use by needy and poor people, then the government should allow for the listing and donations of unused prescription medications on Internet platforms like carousel and Facebook as well.
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Forum: Not able to donate medication after wife's death
Published. NOV 29, 2021, 2:00 AM SGT
The article "Should donors of unsold food be exempted from liability?" (Nov 25) reminded me of a situation I faced in October 2019 when my wife died suddenly of end-stage brain cancer.
I was left with unused and unexpired cancer drugs worth thousands of dollars which I could not give away freely to other patients (whether needy or not), as no doctor or hospital would accept the drugs given the protocols underlying the dispensing of medication.
Over the past two years, I tried to sound out various hospitals, medical professionals and non-profit organisations as to how to prevent the wastage of those drugs, but to no avail.
It has been more than two years now and the expiry dates of the drugs have passed.
How can Singapore develop as a caring society when, for costly medication, there seem to be no procedures or protocols in place for us to prevent wastage and at the same time do good?
Harry Tong
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-not-able-to-donate-medication-after-wifes-death
Too lazy to handle the red tape of the drug batches and expiry dates, hospitals and doctors would not accept donations of unused drugs because they don't have the technology/ burden to track unique batch numbers (in case of batch recall) even for patented drugs worth "thousands of dollars".
So healthcare is now a wasteful multi billion dollar business as well, abusing the reasons of red tape to profit much more?
Doctors are like bankers and car salesman, but have little interest in treatment of poor, or poor don't receive treatment or are dissuaded from doing so?
Then the government says healthcare costs is increasing, so they start robbing the people by increasing GST taxes, incurring more stress to society and the economy, such that people develop more cancers....
We live in a cold and materialistic world where doctors dream of becoming and behave like bankers as well.
If the government is disinterested in the recycling of unused patent medications towards their use by needy and poor people, then the government should allow for the listing and donations of unused prescription medications on Internet platforms like carousel and Facebook as well.
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Forum: Not able to donate medication after wife's death
Published. NOV 29, 2021, 2:00 AM SGT
The article "Should donors of unsold food be exempted from liability?" (Nov 25) reminded me of a situation I faced in October 2019 when my wife died suddenly of end-stage brain cancer.
I was left with unused and unexpired cancer drugs worth thousands of dollars which I could not give away freely to other patients (whether needy or not), as no doctor or hospital would accept the drugs given the protocols underlying the dispensing of medication.
Over the past two years, I tried to sound out various hospitals, medical professionals and non-profit organisations as to how to prevent the wastage of those drugs, but to no avail.
It has been more than two years now and the expiry dates of the drugs have passed.
How can Singapore develop as a caring society when, for costly medication, there seem to be no procedures or protocols in place for us to prevent wastage and at the same time do good?
Harry Tong
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-not-able-to-donate-medication-after-wifes-death
