http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031103to.htm
Today
November 3, 2003
SINGAPORE
By Val Chua
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[SIZE=-1]Lee Sr's wife in London hospital after suffering stroke
[/SIZE][SIZE=+3]E[/SIZE]MOTIONS ran high on a balmy Sunday night as the normally stoic Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew nearly broke down while recounting the ordeal his wife went through in London recently.
The troubles that the couple faced — including joining a queue in a free hospital — when Mrs Lee was hit by stroke two Sundays ago, revealed how differently two systems worked.
"I cannot tell you how restless and unhappy we felt," he said at a community event in Jalan Bukit Merah yesterday.
"We run a (healthcare) system where you have to co-pay … but you get the attention. There, no attention, just join the queue," he said grimly.
Is ah lee speaking from the vantage point of an ordinary sinkie or from his vantage point? Suffice to say an ordinary sinkie would get attention in the sinkie healthcare system?
The first sign of trouble was that there was no private hospital with CT scan facility at night in London, he told residents and community leaders.
Does sinkland have CT scan facility at night? Maybe only for the "higher mortals".
So, Mrs Lee had to go to the NHS hospital nearest to the Four Seasons Hotel where they were staying — a free facility called the Royal London Hospital — and join the queue.
"We waited 45 minutes for the ambulance for a 10-minute drive," said Mr Lee in his first public appearance since the couple returned on Friday.
"In Singapore, within half-an-hour, you would be in SGH (Singapore General Hospital), TTSH (Tan Tock Seng Hospital) … and within one-and-a-half to two hours flat, you'd know what went wrong."
Serious ah? How big is sinkland vs london? Sinkland ambulance does not cock up?
BTW read this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1445850/No-10-helped-leaders-wife-to-jump-NHS-queue.html
When Mrs Lee reached The Royal London Hospital at 12.30am, it happened to have three cardiac arrest patients.
Mr Lee was told his wife's brain problem was "not as important" as the cardiac arrest cases, he recounted solemnly. She would have had to wait till 8am the next morning for her CT brain scan if 10 Downing Street had not intervened to get her early attention. High Commissioner Michael Teo had sought help from 10 Downing Street at 2am on Sunday and she received treatment at 3.30am on the night itself.
I wonder if Ah lee is speaking from a medical perspective or you know from the perspective of an emperor. The nigger is so used to being treated like royalty he probably would be first in line to see the doctor for a paper cut over a terminal patient in sinkland. Now if you're speaking from a medical perspective i am sure the doctors know which medical conditions deserve more attention. A person having a heart attack has a serious risk of ending up totally dead while someone that just had a stroke would have his physical body still intact. A cardiac arrest patient runs the risk of having his heart stop pumping blood so his mental and physical body both perish. Seriously speaking who is he to make the judgment call as to which medical condition is more or less important?
"Once upon a time, it was a wonderful hospital. But after 40 plus years … the system cannot deliver. There's no connection between those in the system and the patients," he said.
What ah lee means to say is his wonderful impression of the NHS and UK healthcare system has all been shattered due to this personal experience of his. He had always thought that the UK being an ang moh country and a first world country had a very good health care system which is still the same even up till today and surpasses sinkland's own healthcare system but because they didn't treat him like the emperor that he is like in sinkland it now sucks.
But it's the way free healthcare systems work, he added, noting that Singapore must not go down that path, even though there are calls for free C class wards in public hospitals here.
"It's how the system works … They did not discriminate against us," he noted of his London experience.
Now you see how he contridicts himself. They did not discriminate him. Isn't that a good thing yet he says sinkland shouldn't adopt such a system. What he means is that there should have been inverse discrimination towards him. That is they should have discrminated those nameless and faceless heart attack patients ahead of him and allow his wife to get treatment first even though he's an alien in the country and not a citizen but you know he's the emperor of some small SEA country. Anyway how does his personal experience actually even reinforce the notion that sinkland shouldn't have free C class wards? Not explained at all.
This contrasted sharply with how quickly Singaporeans — including national carrier Singapore Airlines — reacted to the situation.
Even though doctors initially advised that Mrs Lee stay put in London for three weeks, Mr Lee decided fly her back once her condition stabilised.
And then there was the big worry that she would get a spasm onboard, he recounted.
This isn't a trick question and in fact it sounds really retarded but since it was in the article you need to ask. Do you think SIA would send a specially flown plane if the mr lee in question wasn't the LKY but you know some 80+ old fart that gets in people's way and works at the food court clearing trays? Oh yes and he even went against the advice of doctors in London because you know even though he doesn't have as much medical knowledge as doctors somehow his own decisions would override the professional view of the london doctors. Actually in reality he knew that they wouldn't kiss his ass in london unlike in singapore where the doctors would drop what they were doing to help a dying terminally ill patient and immediately help his wife when she bitched that she did not have a bowel movement that day.
But he needn't have worried. Within 48 hours, SIA had fitted out SQ321 with medical support of oxygen tanks and other fixtures for a drip.
"No other airline would have done this," Mr Lee said, looking visibly touched.
On board were also two Intensive Care nurses from Changi General Hospital, two doctors, as well as officials from SIA who made sure all the equipment worked.
"Everyone knows his job," said Mr Lee. "Within 12 to 13 hours, we'd reached Changi Airport. It was a big relief," he said. "Twelve to 13 hours. Your heart stops beating sometimes. We landed at Changi Airport. Great relief. I had my granddaughter (Li Xiuqi) with me. She is very fond of her grandmother. She was so relieved."
"Everyone knows his job when they are serving me the emperor of singapore and i can easily fuck them up if they even show me the least bit of disrespect. If the MR lee in question happens to road sweeper mr lee well suddenly everyone doesn't know how to do his job.' Editors forgot to add in this bit here.
Mrs Lee was whisked off in an ambulance to Singapore General Hospital, where she is recovering.
"I think this experience has changed my granddaughter's view of Singapore," Mr Lee said.
The overseas ordeal has made him even more assured that Singapore has what it takes to succeed, despite the downturn. "It's how we respond in an emergency that determines how we fight back. And I have enormous confidence that we can fight back."
Especially if you are the biggest fuck in singapore. The rest of nameless plebians including those lowly PAP ministers well fuck them.
The Singapore system — with its efficiency and fighting spirit — must be kept, he said.
"You slacken, you choose the easy way, and you'd be finished," he said.
Choking back tears, he added: "I have immense confidence that in an emergency, our people respond …If we can do that, we can succeed."
