Patients housed in tents and corridors in Fuck World Singapore

[Leepotism]

Hospitals facing severe bed crunch take unusual steps

Patients being housed in tent and corridors, or sent to other hospitals




Changi General Hospital started housing patients waiting for beds in this large air-conditioned tent this week. The 800-bed CGH, along with Tan Tock Seng and Khoo Teck Puat hospitals, has resorted to sending patients to Alexandra, one of the few public hospitals here with spare beds. Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said last night that he was aware of the problem - hence, the push to add 1,900 more acute hospital beds and 2,600 community hospital beds by 2020.






By Salma Khalik, Senior Health Correspondent








A severe bed crunch at Singapore's public hospitals has forced several of them into taking some extraordinary measures.

Changi General Hospital (CGH), which has 800 beds, started housing patients waiting for beds in a large air-conditioned tent this week.

The 1,200-bed Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), meanwhile, has been forced to set up 49 beds along the corridors of its wards to cope with the demand.

Together with Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), they have also resorted to sending patients to Alexandra Hospital, one of the few public hospitals here with spare beds.

 

[songsongjurong]

Khaw should have shippes the senior folks to Johor.

Health Ministry can provide statistic on patient's nationalities?

 

[Confuseous]

A severe bed crunch at Singapore's public hospitals has forced several of them into taking some extraordinary measures.

Changi General Hospital (CGH), which has 800 beds, started housing patients waiting for beds in a large air-conditioned tent this week.

The 1,200-bed Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), meanwhile, has been forced to set up 49 beds along the corridors of its wards to cope with the demand.

Together with Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), they have also resorted to sending patients to Alexandra Hospital, one of the few public hospitals here with spare beds.

Having taken in more than 900 patients from other hospitals between last September and December, it continues to admit around 11 such patients each day.

Dr Lee Chien Earn, CGH's chief executive officer, told The Straits Times: "Our bed occupancy rate has crossed 100 per cent for certain periods over the past month and some patients have waited more than 24 hours for an inpatient bed."

This is despite CGH already renting a ward from Parkway East Hospital and the next-door St Andrew's Community Hospital.

Mr Liak Teng Lit, head of Alexandra Health which runs KTPH, said: "Every day, we have to make decisions regarding our 500 patients. Those who are not so sick are discharged to make way for the 50 to 60 patients waiting for a bed."

He described the current bed crunch as "abnormal", since public hospitals usually experience a dip in patients during this period. But numbers went up instead.

Dr Chia Shi-Lu, a member of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health, suggested that the crunch might be due to the holiday season rather than a spike in illnesses.

Mr Liak said this was possible. He explained how 20 KTPH patients at any one time refuse to be discharged. Some say their families are on holiday, and there is no one at home to take care of them.

Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said last night that he was aware of the problem - hence, the push to add 1,900 more acute hospital beds and 2,600 community hospital beds by 2020.

He added: "The hospitals have also implemented various measures to alleviate the bed crunch.

"CGH has set up a nine-bed Short Stay Unit and expanded its observation ward from 12 to 20 beds at the Emergency Department and also set up an Admission Transit Area for patients who are waiting for a bed in the ward."

Madam Fatimah Beevi, 60, has experienced the crunch at both KTPH and CGH over the past fortnight.

She spent Christmas night on a trolley bed in the packed KTPH's emergency department, where she said the beds were so close she could touch the next patient by stretching out her arm. She was discharged after a day.

When her problems persisted, she went to CGH on Sunday. She was placed in the Admission Transit Area for 48 hours while waiting for a B2 bed.

"There was no shower room and I couldn't bathe for two days," said Madam Fatimah, who was discharged yesterday evening after her condition stabilised.

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[zeddy]

From the picture above, it looks like a hospital for refugees in Sudan..

60% CB Kias who are sent to this kind of tent wards when they are seriously sick deserved this sort of hospital treatment..

 

[laksaboy]

That's what happens when you try to squeeze too many people into a small piece of land.

Oh, and has anyone noticed the increased frequency in the number of times you hear an ambulance's siren on the roads? Sure, it's not a coincidence.

 

[johnny333]

Obviously the PAP are ignorant of what is really going on in Spore.
If they get sick, they are probably fast tracked to the best rooms & treated promptly.

 

[AhMeng]

THIS IS PAP SINGAPORE!
Really Fucked Up PAP!!!

 

[Equalisation]

Gosh ..... is this really happening ?

 

[eatshitndie]

how about setting up makeshft hospital beds in void decks and tents at east coast park? :p

 

[Froggy]

how about setting up makeshft hospital beds in void decks and tents at east coast park? :p

Bro ji-la-ka la how could you even suggest this, alamak it sounds like preparing for patients' funerals especially at void deck some more, really ji-la-ka la, choy choy choy

 

[Leongsam]

You can't blame the PAP if damned patients who don't need to be warded refuse to go home.

The problem with sinkies is that the government spoils them silly. They should be wheeled out of the hospital and tipped into the Singapore river.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Obviously the PAP are ignorant of what is really going on in Spore.
If they get sick, they are probably fast tracked to the best rooms & treated promptly.

Previous two health ministers need a good screw for their failure to plan for the future. No need rocket science to know more people means more beds needed.

 

[Equalisation]

You can't blame the PAP if damned patients who don't need to be warded refuse to go home.

The problem with sinkies is that the government spoils them silly. They should be wheeled out of the hospital and tipped into the Singapore river.

Ada pirahnas sana tak Joe ?

 

[eatshitndie]

Bro ji-la-ka la how could you even suggest this, alamak it sounds like preparing for patients' funerals especially at void deck some more, really ji-la-ka la, choy choy choy

sg is known for her compressed efficiency. just like instant coffee with milk and sugar, here's an opportunity for 3 events for the price of 1: hospitalization, funeral, cremation. :o

 

[Froggy]

sg is known for her compressed efficiency. just like instant coffee with milk and sugar, here's an opportunity for 3 events for the price of 1: hospitalization, funeral, cremation. :o

That's a good one buddy. LOL

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Trains crowded.
Bus crowded.
Roads crowded.
Not enough kindergartens.
Hospitals don't have enough beds.

Thank goodness we are paying the ministers million-dollar salaries. If we had paid less, our problems would have been 10 times worse.

 

[laksaboy]

sg is known for her compressed efficiency. just like instant coffee with milk and sugar, here's an opportunity for 3 events for the price of 1: hospitalization, funeral, cremation. :o

Then round it all up with a good old fashioned Malay wedding.

 

[laksaboy]

Trains crowded.
Bus crowded.
Roads crowded.
Not enough kindergartens.
Hospitals don't have enough beds.

Thank goodness we are paying the ministers million-dollar salaries. If we had paid less, our problems would have been 10 times worse.

If they were paid less, the problem would be more or less the same.

People who fuck up will fuck up regardless of how much you pay them.

But of course, if you pay more, you feel more ripped off.

 

[johnny333]

Previous two health ministers need a good screw for their failure to plan for the future. No need rocket science to know more people means more beds needed.

Don't really know what those clowns are doing in the "government".

We all suspect that decisions are made by a few key people in the PAP. Obviously when the decision was made to import more foreigners they ignored the increased requirements for transportation, housing, hospitals,.... i.e. infrastructure demands. So it's not only a failure of the ministers for health but a failure of the whole PAP gov't.

 

[johnny333]

Then round it all up with a good old fashioned Malay wedding.

Many homeless occupy the void decks. Where will these people go