Dengue death: Family to sue TTSH for negligence

[scroobal]

I am sure the family lawyer will get in touch with one of Myint Soe's successors such as the Chettiars. Moment insurance company sees their names, they will go for negotiation. I am glad that family got a lawyer. I do have hope especially the cocky Medical Head said that nothing could have saved him without an inquiry. She is an interested party and should not made that comment.

This one, you do not have to take a bet... we all know already or behind the scene.. the family have may been warned, if they know better. There is no accountability or independent assessment here or what is called Ombudsman, even there is one, it is definitely titled to their favor. In SINgapore, you got to have, CONNECTION, MONEY, POWER & throw in SEX..."common man", "lesser mortals"...are "never left behind"..for they have no "behinds"...

 

[wendychan]

http://www.ttsh.com.sg/patient-guide/find-care/specialists/page.aspx?spid=189



Dr Lim Poh Lian received her BA (cum laude) in Biochemistry from Harvard, MD from Columbia, and Masters of Public Health from Tulane. She completed internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and infectious disease fellowship at Tulane, New Orleans.

Dr Lim is US Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons (Glasgow), and is ASTMH and ISTM certified in tropical and travel medicine.

Dr Lim is currently a Senior Consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and Head of Travelers’ Health & Vaccination Clinic (THVC). She serves as Senior Consultant in Ministry of Health (Communicable Disease Division), chairs the National Antimicrobial Taskforce, and is active with the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). Her academic appointments include being Adjunct Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, NUS.

Dr Lim has a strong interest in travel and tropical medicine, emerging infection outbreaks, care of HIV patients, and general infectious diseases. She moved in 2003 from a successful private practice in Seattle to Singapore. For her work during the SARS outbreak, she was honoured with the National Day Commendation Medal and Courage Star awards.

Dr Lim is the Singapore site director for GeoSentinel (a joint project of the US CDC and ISTM). Research experience includes being site PI for several international research studies - Esprit, Treat Asia/TAHOD, Artemis, SECONDLINE - and being co-investigator for START, Encore and Altair. She has published in various peer-reviewed journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Infectious Disease, Emerging Infectious Disease, HIV Medicine, Journal of Travel Medicine and PLoS One.

 

[Sinkie]

What? Have to wait for 2 hours 18 minutes when at A&E?

Die liao lor.

 

[Cestbon]

When the family asked whether Yong Han could have been saved if he had been
admitted to hospital earlier, Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, head of
infectious diseases at TTSH, said that his condition deteriorated on Monday, and
it would not have made any difference if he had been admitted to the hospital a
day or two earlier.

=> Would he have said the same thing if the patient is one of the so-called "elite" FAP Traitors? To these FAP Traitors, be reminded of this - for all all the evil you have done and how blatantly you have betrayed your fellow countrymen, it is 不是不报，是时辰未到!

What stupid answer is this!
Next time all doctor family member should delay 24~48hr before admitted to hospital.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Hard to sue as pap will protect its institutions. However it sends a good signal to TTSH to wake up their idea.. i said it b4. The wait was bad, the wrong diagnosis was worse.

We all know what the verdict will be.
SMC will protect their own kind.
But good to cho cho those white scums.
They will never wake up their idea.....only way is to vote them out.

 

[halsey02]

I am sure the family lawyer will get in touch with one of Myint Soe's successors such as the Chettiars. Moment insurance company sees their names, they will go for negotiation. I am glad that family got a lawyer. I do have hope especially the cocky Medical Head said that nothing could have saved him without an inquiry. She is an interested party and should not made that comment.

The cocky head of the medical department is a sorry state reflection of the people we have bred, thanks to you already know who. The head is correct & following procedure. It is common & a growing comments I hear from, "friends, countrymen" that, the younger members of the medical fraternity shows no compassion & no tact..everything is done in a business like manner.

Yes!..there is no guarantee if you check yourself into a hospital, you will live or you will die. But, the reason why we go in is HOPE & that is why we place our trust in the doctors & the medical staff attending to us..they are no miracle worker.

But, "squeezing the juices" from the medical head is what is being echoing out there, the doctors have no compassion & have no tact...

 

[numero uno]

If I am not wrong, there is no medical drug cure for dengue fever. You can only prevent it from getting it from Aedes mosquitoes. It is very much up to the infected person's own body defense system to fight it out. The hospital could only provide intravenous fluids to maintain proper body fluid balance or worst case scenario, blood transfusion.

Crap logic this parents. .
there is no cure for dengue. everybidy knows that. so what he had been admitted earlier??? there is no antibiotics or antiviral for this disease ie no cure. there has beem pateiints admitted very early and yet still die. it is the body own immune system response. if he wants to find fault he should sue NEA and Ministry of home affairs for all the overcrowding, incessant building and dirty contruction sites and incompetent NEA. all these hype about asset enhancements and building more condos to prop up economy is the root cause. go to HK , tokyo or even KL etc and you do not have such disease like dengue, malaria, chikunkungya, etc. go to the root of the problem. NEA and all those who push for all these cr@p constructions.. in UK and USA and even europe you can wait for 24 or even 48 hours at A&E for public hosps. he would lose the case, too bad as smilar cases has happened in UK and USA and patients all would lose case.
just imagine if he wins, then all the doctors in ALL hospitals would quit or go slow , admit every patient for fever and minor aches even mosquito rash and overnight the wait would be even longer, even 100 hospitals built overnight would not be enough and the system would totally collapse suddenly. this would get worse when pop hit 7m. yet some stupid idiot (former URA fellow) says the red dot can support 10 million. obviously he stays in district 9, have vested interests and not affected by this overcrowding. think about it

 

[syed putra]

Very difficult to determine if it is flu or dengue. You only know after tests. Why dont they sue the mosquitos?

 

[Unrepented]

If what you said is true and solid, then will Ministry of Health issue a statement to say that as long as a patient has been diagnosed with dengue fever, all patients will not be allowed to stay in hospital, nor issued any medication, and will be sent home to let their own immune system fight it out, inorder not to waste hosptial bed and resources.

If medical attention for dengue cases are ineffective, then we challenge MOH to issue such a statement.

Crap logic this parents. he should ask who he voted for.
there is no cure for dengue. everybidy knows that. so what he had been admitted earlier??? there os no antibiotics or antiviral. there has beem pateiints admitted very early and yet still die. it is the body own immune system. if he wants to find fault he should sue NEA and Ministry of home affairs for all the overcrowding, incessant buding and dirty contrauction sites and incompetent NEA. go to the root of the problem. in UK and USA and even europe you can wait for 24 or even 48 hours at A&E.

 

[halsey02]

Very difficult to determine if it is flu or dengue. You only know after tests. Why dont they sue the mosquitos?

Shouldn't the hospitals be alert for DENGUE?? since NEA have announced so widely we are seeing an epidemic?? Look, it is once again incompetency, they have to wait for someone to die first..& it had & start to wake up & the better part of this would be, you would be very,very sure..

THEY WILL BLAME US.

 

[shelltox]

Sorry to know that he died of dengue. However, as there is no cure for dengue, only the body immune system can fight it. The father had mentioned that he spent alot of time at the billiard saloon perfecting his skills and would return around 2 am . First of all, if you don't have enough sleep , it would definitely affect your immune system. Blamed it on his lifestyle.

 

[scroobal]

That is exactly right. Well argued. It also means no unnecessary medical bills, no unmanaged expectations.

If what you said is true and solid, then will Ministry of Health issue a statement to say that as long as a patient has been diagnosed with dengue fever, all patients will not be allowed to stay in hospital, nor issued any medication, and will be sent home to let their own immune system fight it out, inorder not to waste hosptial bed and resources.

If medical attention for dengue cases are ineffective, then we challenge MOH to issue such a statement.

 

[shelltox]

Bro, There's no cure for dengue

 

[scroobal]

I don't think we need to bring in comparison with US, UK etc. I clearly remember that waiting period was not as long for decades. The infrastructure could handle it.

The event was predicted, explained and made the headlines over many weeks so the hospitals should have been prepared. The medical fraternity and scientists were saying that it was going to be the worst.

Death is a different matter. The question is did we try to help this kid. Did we give this kid a fighting chance. We grumble about low birth rate and we lose one just like that.

The least is that we should have an inquiry and not making an irresponsible statement like the HOD did.

Crap logic this parents. .
there is no cure for dengue. everybidy knows that. so what he had been admitted earlier??? there is no antibiotics or antiviral for this disease ie no cure. there has beem pateiints admitted very early and yet still die. it is the body own immune system response. if he wants to find fault he should sue NEA and Ministry of home affairs for all the overcrowding, incessant building and dirty contruction sites and incompetent NEA. all these hype about asset enhancements and building more condos to prop up economy is the root cause. go to HK , tokyo or even KL etc and you do not have such disease like dengue, malaria, chikunkungya, etc. go to the root of the problem. NEA and all those who push for all these cr@p constructions.. in UK and USA and even europe you can wait for 24 or even 48 hours at A&E for public hosps. he would lose the case, too bad as smilar cases has happened in UK and USA and patients all would lose case.

 

[Geminipegasus]

Very difficult to determine if it is flu or dengue. You only know after tests. Why dont they sue the mosquitos?

A NEW test using only about three drops of blood will determine in just half an hour or less if you have dengue.

That is the benefit of a new dengue diagnostic kit which produces rapid and reliable results.

The Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital will partner clinics in Singapore to roll out this test kit, as part of a move to establish a primary care network to fight infectious diseases.

The centre sent 1,500 letters to general practices last week to invite doctors to come on board, said clinical director Leo Yee Sin.

The test kit, called SD Dengue Duo, can be easily used by doctors or nurses in the clinic. They just need a pinprick of blood from patients, who will be given the result in 20 to 30 minutes.

Why wasn't he tested the first time he went to hospital instead of being sent home with Panadol is the crucial point of contention of negligence

Btw this test was launched last year so it should have been available

http://www.ttsh.com.sg/about-us/newsroom/news/article.aspx?id=4115

 

[Unrepented]

Eventhough there is no vaccine............but then why they hospitalised that ah neh MP eventhough he was diagnosed with dengue fever

Bro, There's no cure for dengue

 

[scroobal]

Thanks for the insight bro. If he was tested and he and the family knew that he did indeed have dengue I am sure a wholly different attitude would have been and not just ordinary fever.

A NEW test using only about three drops of blood will determine in just half an hour or less if you have dengue.

That is the benefit of a new dengue diagnostic kit which produces rapid and reliable results.


The centre sent 1,500 letters to general practices last week to invite doctors to come on board, said clinical director Leo Yee Sin.


Btw this test was launched last year so it should have been available

http://www.ttsh.com.sg/about-us/newsroom/news/article.aspx?id=4115

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

that's why no chance in hell of winning.
if they do ahead, i hope the lawyer offers his/her services pro bono

assuming got lawyer willing to risk his own career taking up the case lah................

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

by the way.................buy some extra virgin coconut oil (effective against HIV) and grapefruit seed extract (effective against Anthrax)...........

cheap and probably effective against dengue.............these 2 are great against virus !



PM me to know where to order..............

 

[halsey02]

I don't think we need to bring in comparison with US, UK etc. I clearly remember that waiting period was not as long for decades. The infrastructure could handle it.

The event was predicted, explained and made the headlines over many weeks so the hospitals should have been prepared. The medical fraternity and scientists were saying that it was going to be the worst.

Death is a different matter. The question is did we try to help this kid. Did we give this kid a fighting chance. We grumble about low birth rate and we lose one just like that.

The least is that we should have an inquiry and not making an irresponsible statement like the HOD did.

There is certainly complacency but to to nail negligence it would be difficult, unless there is someone out there who is brave enough to take on the juggernaut. They have already started to 'cover up' as much as possible & the final result would be to blame the young man & his family...they would be the one negligent & did not have the patient to wait...