Come 2025 , 25 percent of Singapore Aged population will be over 65. As we age , we will need to find a reliable hospital to take care of our future healthcare needs. If you have chosen Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) , beware and be on alert. If there is anything amiss , please consult your advocate fast. Because the hospital is protected by the "LIMITATION ACT". This act is very new to me. I humbly hope the Honorable Law Mr. K Shanmugam will explain to us what is actually this act. I will like to share my bitter experience that I had with TTSH with the good intention my social media friends , brothers and sisters alike , will not end up in the state I am now. My true story to the best of my knowledge.
Today is 06-06-2022. And this story happened 7 years back. In 06-06-2015 , i went by taxi to TTSH to treat a fever of 39 degree Celsius. The A&E doctor put me on observation that night. The next following day Dr Sadana and her team of doctors approach me and told me the fever was due to infection of the wound below my left foot. I told her my wound was taken care by a private nurse. She convinced me if I allow her to treat , she can save my leg. Because the wound is still new and raw. Seeing her confidence , I agreed. I went through ballooning , bypass of the vein , even allow a plastic surgeon a portion of my skin. Everything went well until one fine day at Level 2 TTSH. When I was doing dialysis , the Filipino nurse showed me a small bottle of drug. She was told to induce the drug into my blood system during dialysis. I told her I was not informed. But she told me she will follow the doctor's order and ask me to ask the doctor the next day. But i never made it. I woke up 4 months later. After i woke up , i realized after the drug was induced to me , I had to be rushed to ICU and put on a life supporting machine almost 2 months. After 4 days in ICU , the doctors told my family , that my survival chances are less than 5 percent. But my eldest son was adamant. He refused to allow the doctors to take me off the life support machine.
Due to the medical negligence , I , a 55-year-old Senior Citizen , had to be rushed to a ICU and put on a life support for almost 2 months. After 2 months , I managed to regain my conscious. With the grace of the almighty Allah , I came back alive. But I have to pay a high price for it.
1) They created a hole in my throat : it made me speechless for months
2) A tube is inserted through my nose : I had to be fed with milk and liquid food for months.
3) My leg had to be amputated : this is the leg they promised to save.
4) My 2 hands were damage : Dr Sadana said it was due to the recklessness of the ICU Unit
5) After doing all this misshape , to bring me back to normalcy , they charged the hospital bill to my account.
After I was discharged from ICU , I went back to my normal ward in TTSH. There the business office approached my family. And told them , my initial Medisave of $35,000 has been used up and they require my family to top up cash into my Medisave Account. I told them we have no money to top up cash. Due to that , they forcefully , shifted me to Ren Ci Community Hospital.
There a porter brought me in a wheelchair to the MRI suite in TTSH. The porter and the MRI attendant quarrel because i should have been brought over in a bed. The porter left angrily , leaving me behind. The MRI attendant , called 7 of her friends. All 8 tried to carry me from wheelchair to the bed , in the process , my right leg was stucked to the bolt of the bed and was torn. Due to that , after 2 months of discharge , due to gangrene , I had to amputate that leg. But I was shock when TTSH told me , they are not responsible for the right leg , claiming that it was under Ren Ci. But i find it difficult to believe. Everything was under TTSH from the porter , MRI Suite , the doctors. And worst of all , after 323 days of admission , when i was discharged , I was only issued one and one hospital bill under TTSH. Ren Ci did not provide me any bill. In total , i was in hospital for nearly 1 year. Due to all these incidents , i became total and permanently disabled , two legs amputated(a.k.a).
I will like to ask Tan Tock Seng Hospital these few questions.
Question 1
I went for a left foot treatment. I was active and agile. And was ask to do left foot exercise , daily with my Malay Therapist and was under the watchful eyes of specialist and professional doctors. Then why did i end up in ICU?
Question 2
Your doctors caused me this misshape. Then why was I ask to pay for the mistakes done by your doctors? Our Honorable Prime Minister , Mr. Lee Hsien Long , assured Singaporeans , that our medisave will be wisely use by the doctors. Why in my case for a treatment of a left foot , I was charged a hefty bill of $51,000?
Question 3
I was ask to stay in hospital for 323 days for a treatment of a left foot. Is this normal?
Knowing the Limitation Act , you purposely buy time. To make the case over in May. You acknowledge my letter of complaint in Early January 2019 and "pretend" to arrange a Doctor-Patient on 24-02-2019. I called it "pretends" because only Dr Sadana and I was invited. The coordinator Rachel , disallows any video or audio recording. No medical expert was present nor were there any MOH official. The judge of the day , Professor Glen , was missing. He did not even attend the meeting nor meet the patient. Shamelessly the Professor gave his written judgement in May.
Legal Aid Bureau(LAB) represent me for 8 months and they quit. Making a mockery of my poverty. But later they claimed , they could not forward my case for a trial in a open court because my case has been nullified.
I was supposed to take a Raid of Summon in May 2019 against Tan Tock Seng. And that's when I realize Tan Tock Seng made a fool out of me by arranging a Patient-Doctor meeting. To pretend as though they are investigating the case.
Tan Tock Seng Hospital handle human lives. I nearly lost my life. Tan Tock Seng should not conceal the Truth and defend the wrongdoings of their doctors. Instead, they should provide full security and be accountable. Be socially and morally responsible for the welfare and wellbeing of their patients. Here I trusted the hospital. At the end of the day , I lost my 2 legs and 2 hands. And was made a permanently disabled man. They refused to pay me compensation using the Limitation Act. And they also overcharged me by asking me to pay for the damage they did to me. To amputate my right leg , they took less than a week. Can TTSH tell me in detail why they took 323 days to amputate my left leg? It was the same doctors. Why the stark difference? If they were to amputate my legs , why did they assign a plastic surgeon to graft a portion of my skin , informing me they need it to cover my wound below my leg? In fact , before these incidents in 2015 , I never had such incident any time before my lifetime age. Now after 6 years of discharge , I never had a relapsed again. Then TTSH , why are you claiming you are innocent? Due to this case my cpf MediSave is zero. My new Medical Social Worker , Ms. Belle ,is harassing my children to activate their Medisave and pay for my medical arrears. And she refused to activate my Medifund outpatient. I tried to ask my MP to appeal. But she sarcastically replied , you can ask MP to send 100 of letters , the Hospital won't entertain.
That is why I am writing in this Facebook post to share my agony to everyone that I was victimized and hope TTSH and together with MOH will jointly do a thorough investigation again on my matter. Conscience matters. Justice prevails. I still live till today hoping I will get the justice I deserve.
The only thing kept me going till now is the help given by National Kidney Foundation(NKF) , Tzu Chi Foundation for assisting my Ambulance Assistance , previous TTSH Social workers who were understanding and assisted to provide me with outpatient medications for last 6 years. They never left me without any medications. But now I am left with no medications. I bless everybody. I pray and wish no one to go through what I went through.
May God bless us.
Takecare.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/complaintsingapore/posts/1438858259894397/
Today is 06-06-2022. And this story happened 7 years back. In 06-06-2015 , i went by taxi to TTSH to treat a fever of 39 degree Celsius. The A&E doctor put me on observation that night. The next following day Dr Sadana and her team of doctors approach me and told me the fever was due to infection of the wound below my left foot. I told her my wound was taken care by a private nurse. She convinced me if I allow her to treat , she can save my leg. Because the wound is still new and raw. Seeing her confidence , I agreed. I went through ballooning , bypass of the vein , even allow a plastic surgeon a portion of my skin. Everything went well until one fine day at Level 2 TTSH. When I was doing dialysis , the Filipino nurse showed me a small bottle of drug. She was told to induce the drug into my blood system during dialysis. I told her I was not informed. But she told me she will follow the doctor's order and ask me to ask the doctor the next day. But i never made it. I woke up 4 months later. After i woke up , i realized after the drug was induced to me , I had to be rushed to ICU and put on a life supporting machine almost 2 months. After 4 days in ICU , the doctors told my family , that my survival chances are less than 5 percent. But my eldest son was adamant. He refused to allow the doctors to take me off the life support machine.
Due to the medical negligence , I , a 55-year-old Senior Citizen , had to be rushed to a ICU and put on a life support for almost 2 months. After 2 months , I managed to regain my conscious. With the grace of the almighty Allah , I came back alive. But I have to pay a high price for it.
1) They created a hole in my throat : it made me speechless for months
2) A tube is inserted through my nose : I had to be fed with milk and liquid food for months.
3) My leg had to be amputated : this is the leg they promised to save.
4) My 2 hands were damage : Dr Sadana said it was due to the recklessness of the ICU Unit
5) After doing all this misshape , to bring me back to normalcy , they charged the hospital bill to my account.
After I was discharged from ICU , I went back to my normal ward in TTSH. There the business office approached my family. And told them , my initial Medisave of $35,000 has been used up and they require my family to top up cash into my Medisave Account. I told them we have no money to top up cash. Due to that , they forcefully , shifted me to Ren Ci Community Hospital.
There a porter brought me in a wheelchair to the MRI suite in TTSH. The porter and the MRI attendant quarrel because i should have been brought over in a bed. The porter left angrily , leaving me behind. The MRI attendant , called 7 of her friends. All 8 tried to carry me from wheelchair to the bed , in the process , my right leg was stucked to the bolt of the bed and was torn. Due to that , after 2 months of discharge , due to gangrene , I had to amputate that leg. But I was shock when TTSH told me , they are not responsible for the right leg , claiming that it was under Ren Ci. But i find it difficult to believe. Everything was under TTSH from the porter , MRI Suite , the doctors. And worst of all , after 323 days of admission , when i was discharged , I was only issued one and one hospital bill under TTSH. Ren Ci did not provide me any bill. In total , i was in hospital for nearly 1 year. Due to all these incidents , i became total and permanently disabled , two legs amputated(a.k.a).
I will like to ask Tan Tock Seng Hospital these few questions.
Question 1
I went for a left foot treatment. I was active and agile. And was ask to do left foot exercise , daily with my Malay Therapist and was under the watchful eyes of specialist and professional doctors. Then why did i end up in ICU?
Question 2
Your doctors caused me this misshape. Then why was I ask to pay for the mistakes done by your doctors? Our Honorable Prime Minister , Mr. Lee Hsien Long , assured Singaporeans , that our medisave will be wisely use by the doctors. Why in my case for a treatment of a left foot , I was charged a hefty bill of $51,000?
Question 3
I was ask to stay in hospital for 323 days for a treatment of a left foot. Is this normal?
Knowing the Limitation Act , you purposely buy time. To make the case over in May. You acknowledge my letter of complaint in Early January 2019 and "pretend" to arrange a Doctor-Patient on 24-02-2019. I called it "pretends" because only Dr Sadana and I was invited. The coordinator Rachel , disallows any video or audio recording. No medical expert was present nor were there any MOH official. The judge of the day , Professor Glen , was missing. He did not even attend the meeting nor meet the patient. Shamelessly the Professor gave his written judgement in May.
Legal Aid Bureau(LAB) represent me for 8 months and they quit. Making a mockery of my poverty. But later they claimed , they could not forward my case for a trial in a open court because my case has been nullified.
I was supposed to take a Raid of Summon in May 2019 against Tan Tock Seng. And that's when I realize Tan Tock Seng made a fool out of me by arranging a Patient-Doctor meeting. To pretend as though they are investigating the case.
Tan Tock Seng Hospital handle human lives. I nearly lost my life. Tan Tock Seng should not conceal the Truth and defend the wrongdoings of their doctors. Instead, they should provide full security and be accountable. Be socially and morally responsible for the welfare and wellbeing of their patients. Here I trusted the hospital. At the end of the day , I lost my 2 legs and 2 hands. And was made a permanently disabled man. They refused to pay me compensation using the Limitation Act. And they also overcharged me by asking me to pay for the damage they did to me. To amputate my right leg , they took less than a week. Can TTSH tell me in detail why they took 323 days to amputate my left leg? It was the same doctors. Why the stark difference? If they were to amputate my legs , why did they assign a plastic surgeon to graft a portion of my skin , informing me they need it to cover my wound below my leg? In fact , before these incidents in 2015 , I never had such incident any time before my lifetime age. Now after 6 years of discharge , I never had a relapsed again. Then TTSH , why are you claiming you are innocent? Due to this case my cpf MediSave is zero. My new Medical Social Worker , Ms. Belle ,is harassing my children to activate their Medisave and pay for my medical arrears. And she refused to activate my Medifund outpatient. I tried to ask my MP to appeal. But she sarcastically replied , you can ask MP to send 100 of letters , the Hospital won't entertain.
That is why I am writing in this Facebook post to share my agony to everyone that I was victimized and hope TTSH and together with MOH will jointly do a thorough investigation again on my matter. Conscience matters. Justice prevails. I still live till today hoping I will get the justice I deserve.
The only thing kept me going till now is the help given by National Kidney Foundation(NKF) , Tzu Chi Foundation for assisting my Ambulance Assistance , previous TTSH Social workers who were understanding and assisted to provide me with outpatient medications for last 6 years. They never left me without any medications. But now I am left with no medications. I bless everybody. I pray and wish no one to go through what I went through.
May God bless us.
Takecare.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/complaintsingapore/posts/1438858259894397/
