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MacPherson Member of Parliament Tin Pei Ling and her staff were ‘uncontactable’ when a needy resident tried calling her constituency office seeking for assistance, prompting him to lodge a complaint to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong!
According to the resident Daniel De Costa, he slippd and fell at Geylang East Food Centre located in the ward of MacPherson on Monday.
Mr De Costa called NEA first for assistance, but the number was not in use. He then tried calling Marine Parade Town Council and was told by a staff Ms Faridah that “no one was at hand to head down onsite to view first hand the situation.”
“In view of all these unfolding, I remembered Ms Tin Peiling who is functioning F/T presenting so I tried calling the constituency office. But the answerer conveyed to me that no attendant was around and it is functioning as a kindergarten instead.”
Out of desperation, he called a friend from SPH who called for an ambulance to fetch him to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he received medical treatment.
In the email to PM Lee, Mr De Costa also expressed his disappointment at the lack of proper ‘contingency plans’ to handle such emergencies.
“There is no justifiable excuse for it since Ms Tin had acknowledged the high concentration of elderly in the MacPherson ward, in her releases to the press,” he added.
According to the resident Daniel De Costa, he slippd and fell at Geylang East Food Centre located in the ward of MacPherson on Monday.
Mr De Costa called NEA first for assistance, but the number was not in use. He then tried calling Marine Parade Town Council and was told by a staff Ms Faridah that “no one was at hand to head down onsite to view first hand the situation.”
“In view of all these unfolding, I remembered Ms Tin Peiling who is functioning F/T presenting so I tried calling the constituency office. But the answerer conveyed to me that no attendant was around and it is functioning as a kindergarten instead.”
Out of desperation, he called a friend from SPH who called for an ambulance to fetch him to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he received medical treatment.
In the email to PM Lee, Mr De Costa also expressed his disappointment at the lack of proper ‘contingency plans’ to handle such emergencies.
“There is no justifiable excuse for it since Ms Tin had acknowledged the high concentration of elderly in the MacPherson ward, in her releases to the press,” he added.
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