Who should take the rap for Geylang Serai food poisoning?

[Avantas]

Nobody dies from acute gastroenteritis, or diarrhoea in developed countries. The number one killer of children worldwide is a public health concern in many Third World countries where poor public hygiene facilitates the transmission of disease-causing pathogens via the faecal-oral route.

It is therefore unacceptable that the Geylang Serai food poisoning outbreak has claimed two victims so far with 11 still in hospital which makes a mockery out of our reputation as a squeaky clean country. (read article here)

The NEA said yesterday that it was not directly responsible for hygiene at temporary markets, but only at permanent ones owned by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.

In an official statement released to the media, it claimed that the care of each temporary market is the job of its management committee, although it does make spot checks on hygiene at individual hawker stalls.

A joint statement from the MOH and the National Environment Agency (NEA) confirmed that 12 people, including the first woman who died, had tested positive for the bacteria Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

Vibrio paramaemolyticus causes an explosive, watery diarrhoea which is usually self-limiting. According to the husband of the second victim, Madam Noraini Kasim, she was trailing blood as she made her way to the toilet. There may be more than one pathogen involved such as Shigella, Salmonella or Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli.

At the same time, 61 rats were found and cleared by pest controllers at the premises today. (read article here) It is most unbelievable to find so many rats inhabiting a public eating outlet in Singapore!

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[dysentry]

Used to live at a 2nd floor HDB apartment, after 2005 I would hear rats every night at the rubbish chute downstairs. One night after peeing I turned around and stepped on a rat. After that I never left the front door open anymore.

Yaacob must resign to take the blame for falling standards in public hygiene and pest control.

 

[Nice-Gook]

Used to live at a 2nd floor HDB apartment, after 2005 I would hear rats every night at the rubbish chute downstairs. One night after peeing I turned around and stepped on a rat. After that I never left the front door open anymore.

Yaacob must resign to take the blame for falling standards in public hygiene and pest control.

<style></style>It is further compounded by the explosive growth of foreign coolies here.Lower floors are hard to sell.Most are rented out to FT coolies.Being in the lower rung of jobs they live about 6 to a room and hardly find time to keep their environment clean let alone themselves clean.Almost everything however filthy or bulky is thrown down through the HDB rubbish chutes.PRC workers ,even their students keeps open food stuffs in their cupboards.

An old uncle told me that sinkie even in his time did not have such a rampant rats and cockroach problem as of now.He said true in the past rats lived in run down drains and ghettoes like Chinatown.But they had natural enemies like snakes too.Thus their population was rather controlled.But now he says the rats and cockroaches are rampant everywhere.Myself saw cockroaches running around in "Banquet " in Vivocity.

 

[Leegimeremover]

What you see here is systemic failure due to letting a lesser man have his way to absolutely actualize his ideal. So this is one version of Singapore that is converted from imagination to reality and not good at all, considering that Singapore is a natural gold mine, in terms of international trade economies. If you factor away the positive fundamentals of Singapore that old man failed dismally. Nothing matters, this failure will serve human history well as what not to do. For the active participants of history this of course not a nice thing. But for those that come after us, let us hope they are more than just a casual reader when they see this sub sub chapter of history of the world

 

[Nice-Gook]

What you see here is systemic failure due to letting a lesser man have his way to absolutely actualize his ideal.

<style></style>The fact is all our representatives aka MP(s) and our million dollar ministers never lives in a HDB or eat in a hawker centre or takes MRT/buses to work.And these are the people who rules our lives.LHL for example may have never seen a rat or cockroach except in a lab during his science lessons.How could these people know that squeezing millions of foreign coolies would increase rats and cockroach population resulting in death.