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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->IT SADDENS me to read of the death of another young soldier ('Recruit dies just after booking out' last Saturday and 'Recruit faints and dies in hospital' on Sunday).
According to the reports, the Singapore Armed Forces knew that army recruit Liam Kai Zheng suffered from high blood pressure. What was his medical fitness status when he enlisted and was the field training he did before his death appropriate or closely monitored, given his medical condition?
He had complained of breathlessness during training last Wednesday, and suffered a nose bleed the next day.
Given his medical condition, why was Mr Liam not given a thorough medical examination? Why was he told, instead, to rest for half an hour on Wednesday before resuming training?
He was described as delirious during the ferry journey back to the mainland and was later found unconscious, with a high pulse and temperature, in the foyer of the ferry terminal.
How can a sick soldier be discharged by the medical centre or not noticed by his officers or NCOs when Changi General Hospital reported that his temperature had shot to 42 deg C on admission?
Later, doctors told his family that he had swelling in the brain and internal bleeding.
Was the nose bleed a signal that something was already terribly wrong with Mr Liam on Thursday?
It will help the public if the medical authorities or the Ministry of Defence explain the circumstances leading to Mr Liam's death. Wong Poh Weng
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->IT SADDENS me to read of the death of another young soldier ('Recruit dies just after booking out' last Saturday and 'Recruit faints and dies in hospital' on Sunday).
According to the reports, the Singapore Armed Forces knew that army recruit Liam Kai Zheng suffered from high blood pressure. What was his medical fitness status when he enlisted and was the field training he did before his death appropriate or closely monitored, given his medical condition?
He had complained of breathlessness during training last Wednesday, and suffered a nose bleed the next day.
Given his medical condition, why was Mr Liam not given a thorough medical examination? Why was he told, instead, to rest for half an hour on Wednesday before resuming training?
He was described as delirious during the ferry journey back to the mainland and was later found unconscious, with a high pulse and temperature, in the foyer of the ferry terminal.
How can a sick soldier be discharged by the medical centre or not noticed by his officers or NCOs when Changi General Hospital reported that his temperature had shot to 42 deg C on admission?
Later, doctors told his family that he had swelling in the brain and internal bleeding.
Was the nose bleed a signal that something was already terribly wrong with Mr Liam on Thursday?
It will help the public if the medical authorities or the Ministry of Defence explain the circumstances leading to Mr Liam's death. Wong Poh Weng
