After an operation and I was to get down from bed for the first time, this local nurse was supposed to help me and make sure I don’t faint onto the floor due to low blood pressure.

You know what she did? she just asked, “you can do it on your own, rite? can right…?” without even coming close to me and hold on to me, when I clearly seemed giddy. she is same sex as me, so no issue of not touching the opp sex.

What make me fumed is she was more interested in the gifts and flowers I received. She even asked me who is the guy who visited me and send me a particular gift!!! Whether he is a doctor, and if yes, is he a doctor in that hospital!!!

WTF, I told her that is my cousin, Yes, he is a doctor but not a medical doctor. And he is happily married to a very beautiful and intelligent lady with a wonderful kid.

Shit! She was more interested in my handsome cousin than in me as a patient! And she is much older than me somemore! what a lau hiao!

Obviously, the hospital did not intend to taking this seriously….until it was leaked to the media. Absolutely scandalous. I wonder how many of such errors go unreported????

So, this is how KKH wins the award by not apologising for its mistake. Looks like these awards are crap.

Remember enron also received lots of awards but what happened?

Thanks for sharing your stories with us. They are truly shocking indeed. And as we sit here, the costs of medical care continue to rise relentlessly.

Guess Singapore is a place where the poor and middle class really cannot afford to fall sick.

I had been hospitalized a few times.There were number of times over a period my blood pressure was taken by China’s nurses by merely pressing only their thumbs on my wrist.Only when the matter was brougt to the attention of local matron did it stop.Then there were times medication to be taken within hours was late as much as 18 hours and there were times when medications were administered double by two different nurses over an hour.It simply boils down to caveat emptor or buyers be aware.Now the question is how many patients who are sick and bed ridden are made knowns what is their treatment by their doctors? f.Even if they attempt to know they are mostly kept in dark.Simply because the doctor/patients relationship in Singapore stinks.Most doctors in our hospitals play gods and never discuss anything with their patients or their relatives.Even during their morning routines which starts from 8AM to 10AM..nothing is told.The patients can lie in their beds for as much as 10 days without knowing whats is going on…I had seen many illitrate elderly patients killing their time in bed in suspense only to be told discharged all of a sudden.

The moment you are warded up to 7 doctors would appear asking you the same questions again and again as if nothing about your condition ever recorded..Than the silent game begins with a morning routine of doctors only glancing at you and talking amongst themselves while you are kept totally in dark…I bet not letting the patient know their dignosis and their proposed treatment keeps them legally safe if there were any abuse.

I know of an incident when a 9 year old child was kept waiting for a time slot to an operating theatre for about 18 hours–without food and water.Not counting the waiting time in the emergency ward.Should a pending operation is delayed for more than a certain period it is usual for the patient to be administer a’drip’ of glucose so that the patient would not be weak at the operating table..And this happened to a child!.

It is not only at hospitalization level one’s nightmare begins.It begins at outpatient and emergency situation too..Just walk around any AE ward in any of our hospitals..You could see patients dripping blood all over the floor waiting for hours to be called..Why could not the trained nurses at the first counter who takes down ones blood pressure and etc administer a simple procedure of First Aid?…Then there were times it only took me 1 hour to seen the doctor in an AE but 3 hours for the nurse to give me the prescription and only when I asked !…Then I saw a infuriated man shouting loud at the Filipino pharmacist for keeping him waiting for more than two hours for his medication for he cannot afford to take taxi home and the last bus is at 11.45PM..The shock is it was only him and me in the que..Than the the Filipino pharmacist started to nit pick and began an argument for giving her a slightly torn prescription
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The tales are too long to tell.Most patients suffer silently because they simply want to get well and go home…And our hospitals and their staff has all the luxury of time at the expenses of tax payers with no transparency.

One sleepy nurse/pharmacist/doctor can cause you your life! Not even the Health Minister will stand by your family if something happens to you!

DON’T GO TO KKH!