Define "Equality" - Drug Blunder At KKH
Mummy is a nice lady. One of the nicest even to strangers. Even after having to go through all these, she puts a smile on her face, greets and wishes the nurses and doctors well whenever they visited her in the ward. She would even check with them if they have had their meals etc. I'm certain the staff at KKH can testify to that.
Don't get me wrong, there were nice and caring nurses and doctor (like Dr Chia) who attended to my mum. But overall, from the negligence to post-incident treatment and experience at KKH just did not go well. And that's just an under-statement.
While chatting with my mum after work yesterday, she too felt a sense of injustice and inequality when both herself and Mrs Yip both were victims of the same blunder, yet for some reason(s), she never got an apology from the 2 pharmacist. It's not a matter of whether the apology meant anything at this point in time when the drug already would have affected the victims. But knowing that they did apologize to Mrs Yip and not to her, made everyone of us feel sick in the stomach. I can bet with anyone that my mum will not even raise her voice at them had they faced their music and visited her personally.
One of the staff at KKH even mentioned that it was commendable for my mum to have alerted the hospital immediately when the alarm (infusion pump) went off.
AND IT WAS MY MUM'S CALL THAT SAVED KKH FROM EVEN DIRE CONSEQUENCES.
It was my mum's call that led to Mrs Yip being alerted by KKH about their blunder.
Then tell me, give me a very good reason to convince my mum, my dad, my family members. Explain to me why is there such "double-standards"? Am I right to say that my mum deserves better treatment only if she had been administered an equally, if not much more potent drug?
Sigh...
5 comments:
ANGRY: i am really angry with KKH. do stand up for what u think is right. i support u. go all out and fight for justice. btw, i can see how frustrated u are with all these happening and with ur mum now that she is not well and good..because my late mum was a patient receiving chemo too. but not under KKH.
ANGRY: i will visit your blog everyday where possible. i really feel for u and ur family and esp ur mum. i really hope she experiences the most minimum side effects of what chemotherapy can result. and wants her to be positive about her condition. and im sure she can be, with u supporting her so much. and of course your beloved family.
Angry: I am no supporter for people doing the wrong things, but base on my person experience, you can talk till the cows come home, nothing can be done even if something serious happen to your mum. Everything will be play down. Ordinary people will never know or want to know. Face it, you are living in Sg. Even if you win by sueing so what. The underlining more important issue is not resolved.
Only by sueing in court, more details and transparency will be revealed.
Without sueing,we will not know the
about the criminal acts of TT Durai of NKF and MingYi of RenCi.
In Singapore,you can only get the truth by sueing in court.
If the truth is uglier than we thought, it will help to reform our
medical hub status in the world and
help to save more cancer patients from the same sufferings.
I am so angry with KKH!!
My experience with KKh was not that great either,when i had my first child,their staff asked me if you can take the pain then why do you need an epidural!!
Since i was not on my right state of mind,i was not able to get that sarcastic staff's name. My sister who visited KK recently and is pregnant was told off that she was putting up an 'act' to get MC's.The staffs are so not sympathetic towards the patients. I think your family should go ahead and get these filthy people to pay for their grave mistake!!!
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