Total Lack of Care & Facilities For Senior Citizens @ SingHealth Polyclinics.

[bakkuttay]

Members of the establishment need to remember that the objective of government is to make the lives of ordinary people better.

Sorry hoh!!!!!!!!! Main objective is how to maximize their own paycheck even at the expense of ordinay people.

 

[zhihau]

since 2007 every toilet cluster must have 1 handicapped toilet

are the polyclinics built before 2007 retrofitted with handicap-friendly toilets? :o

 

[halsey02]

Govt: "Not happy go to Gleneagles lah!"

Half Ball Bala, had already indicated their level of service you get , you want to eat your food, where?? Same, the current heal!! ministart, will ask you, where you would want to be attended to? quietly it says that...you have no money..you 'eat' in line, with your aluminum tray & be served in the mess hall, like in the army..the same goes with health care services.

You expect porter to assist you? you expect to be served first...wait in line & hopefully you will be served...be realistic. Work hard when you are young, have enough savings to prepare yourself when you get old, so that you can afford to be SERVED.

 

[Unrepented]

Just change the toilet sign to "Unisex". Fast and cheap.:o

Recently, I visited a SingHealth Polyclinic Lab Clinic. As usual. Many elderly people were there. Some of these unsteady patients were tottering about and supported by their elderly wives, daughters or maids.

I noticed an old Malay man (around 80 years old). he held a walking stick in one hand and a small plastic container in the other. His wife assisted him. However, she could only bring him to the entrance of the toilet, after which, understandably, it was a no go zone for her.

The old man pleaded with the wife to assist him at the urinal. The poor wife knew her limitations and left him alone at the entrance.

SingHealth, had failed miserably to see to the physical needs of such elderly patients.

Why can't they have "porters" on stand-by to assist these people - taking over from others who bring them to the toilets?

Why can't there be special rooms for use by such people. Their wives, daughters, maids, etc.. can follow them in and assist them.

If Singhealth wish to save costs by not using porters, then the least they could do is to provide such rooms for exclusive use by such people of both sexes.

The lack of such facilities for the old and frail clearly indicates that those "proffessionals" who constructed the building and those that approved such designs simply do not have the needs of such people in mind.

This is the sad case in Singapore today where the population of the old is rising steadily. The young generation seems to have lost such concerns, feelings and thoughts for the old and weak. They do not know how to emphatise. Maybe, these "super-intelligent technocrats" feel that they themselves have drank from the fountain of youth and will never age in the near future.

Is this is what we called "far-sightedness" of the young leaders?

Is Singhealth awaiting some disasters to happen and later be embroiled in civil suits?

 

[Leongsam]

Just change the toilet sign to "Unisex". Fast and cheap.:o

You would not want to share toilets with the opposite sex. It can be really gross.

 

[looneytan]

You would not want to share toilets with the opposite sex. It can be really gross.

especially 80 year-old opposite sex

 

[Leongsam]

especially 80 year-old opposite sex

Nothing to do with 80 year olds. I was in charge of a maintenance crew in a factory a long time ago. One of their tasks was toilet maintenance.

The stories they related about the disgusting toilet habits of women was enough to cause you to lose your lunch.

 

[halsey02]

You would not want to share toilets with the opposite sex. It can be really gross.

Have you been to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Medical centre) where the pharmacy is & the lower level clinics are?? when you have to go...you gotta go!!..the toilets are unisex...just your luck if....!!

 

[laksaboy]

Nothing to do with 80 year olds. I was in charge of a maintenance crew in a factory a long time ago. One of their tasks was toilet maintenance.

The stories they related about the disgusting toilet habits of women was enough to cause you to lose your lunch.

Indeed. They love to throw their bloody pads and tampons into the toilet bowl.

Other than an aiming problem, male toilets are far cleaner than female toilets.

 

[Dreamer1]

After Tsunami 2011,MOH did change and improve,credit to them but it would not altar the fact that PAP is on its way out by 2016

 

[soIsee]

I thought these damned useless old farts are supposed to be shipped to Johore.

Precisely, let's begin with a 90 year old who recently celebrated his birthday.

Better still bury this one in concrete ( and don't need to put any momumental inscription on the concrete surface,please), sail to the deepest part of the ocean and..

Dump it there! LOL

 

[soIsee]

Have you been to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Medical centre) where the pharmacy is & the lower level clinics are?? when you have to go...you gotta go!!..the toilets are unisex...just your luck if....!!

If you have to go to thsoe pharmacy, you must be a 'down and out' Sinkie.

If you had paid PRIVATE Rates at this same hospital, your pharmarcy will be right inside the cosy 5 star furnishing of these clinics and when you pay they will bring your credit card to the individual patient, as you seat comfortably sipping he free capacinno/ coffee/tea/milo provided.

And each toilet is 5 star hotel standard which you will find is always availiable.

But your PAP Master will only do this if you PAY UP MARKET RATE!! hahahahahaha