Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Acceptable?

[makapaaa]

[h=2]No one will be deprived of medical treatment?[/h]

May 27th, 2013 |

Author: Contributions

I understand that TR Emeritus (TRE) is trying to contact a
couple to see if they can help to raise funds for the operations that their 21
month old baby girl needs for a ear implant. Chan Chee Keong, the father had
written to the authorities and CPF for help. This is a part of his letter
pleading for help and mercy in the ST online.

‘Allow Medisave use for daughter’s ear implant

My daughter was diagnosed with profound hearing loss at birth and fitted
with hearing aids when she was five months old.

Now, at 21 months, hearing aids do not help her any more and doctors at
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital recommended that she get cochlear
implants.In January, I sent e-mail messages to the Health Ministry and
Central Provident Fund Board to seek approval for the release of part of my
Medisave funds to help pay for the procedure, but have yet to receive a
response….’

While I am happy to know that she would be able to hear much better after
getting the implants, the bill would come up to $39,000.

The maximum government subsidy was allowed for the first implant. However,
the second implant, which therapists said would enable my daughter to hear more
effectively in school, had to be paid in full.
​

While the parents are waiting anxiously for an official and positive reply,
you can sense how desperate they are as parents and how concerned they are to
help their little child. Maybe if they are from Nepal or another poorer country,
the child will have a better chance of getting the operations done here. We have
heard of a few well published cases of very expensive medical operations done on
foreigners on a charitable basis. Still wondering why we don’t do that for our
very own kind. There was this little girl that had to raise funds on her own for
a cornea transplant.

And here we have the parents with some money in their own Medisave and
pleading to use it for their daughter’s medical operation, and so far no reply.
The money is not going to be spent in the casino or on some little mei mei or
for a wild holiday. This is a medical case, and the money will be spent,
documented, in our hospital.

What is the point of saving for the rainy day when the money when needed
cannot be used? What is the point of having the best hospital facilities when we
cannot help our very own citizens who are willing to pay? What is the point of
saying no one will be denied medical treatment because they cannot afford to
pay?

Have we been thinking correctly?

.

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean

* The writer blogs at
http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/

.

Editor’s note: If any readers has the contact of the
parents, do let us know. We’ll try to contact them and ask if they need monetary
assistance, in case MOH rejects them using their Medisave for the 2nd implant.

 

[chupacabra]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

Sinkees only realized or find out about these things after the fact when they need their CPF for issues such as this one. It's no secret that CPF belongs to the PApies including your flat. Why not immigrate when you are still young and childless.

 

[chootchiew]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

This is the best title for using the word "Acceptable" and the answer is a BIG not acceptable.

 

[Leungsam]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

What's the point of having a saving account where you cannot even use it to buy a simple bowl of noodle when you needed it most.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

You money is LEE's money.......their money is their money.

 

[soIsee]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

Let me guess..

Who did Chan Chee Keong voted for? LOL

 

[soIsee]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

Sinkees only realized or find out about these things after the fact when they need their CPF for issues such as this one. It's no secret that CPF belongs to the PApies including your flat. Why not immigrate when you are still young and childless.

Or in other words Sinkie only know the dire consquences to their pathetic BALLESSNESS only when they did to use the W/C urgently to shit, only to that the realise Pappies has taken the toilet door key and had locked the door.

 

[Leepotism]

Re: Can Use CPF $ for HoJinx to Gamble, But Cannot Use it to Treat Own Child. Accepta

Ho Ching, LKY and Lee Hsien Loong must die if sinkies want to have a better life in Singapore.