Ferrari crash: SCDF 'made the right call'. You Agree?

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[h=1]Ferrari crash: SCDF 'made the right call'[/h][h=2]Specialists say paramedics were right to send victims to SGH, TTSH[/h]
Published on May 26, 2012

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<!--close .storyLeft--><!--start of story image, if any--> The Victoria Street-Rochor Road junction where the May 12 accident took place. Specialists said that though SGH and TTSH are farther away from the scene than Raffles Hospital, they can handle traumas better. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

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<!--start of story text-->A group of top emergency medicine specialists have come out to say that it was the right call to send the victims of the recent Ferrari crash to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).
Although the two public hospitals are farther from the accident scene than the privately run Raffles Hospital, they are better equipped and staffed to handle the victims, the five specialists said.
They said the public hospitals, and not Raffles, are part of the Ministry of Health's 'national emergency and trauma system', which means they are required to have the facilities, equipment and specialists - on hand, round the clock - to handle multiple emergency and trauma victims.
<!--close .relatedLinks, if any-->[h=5]Background story[/h]PRIVATE HOSPITALS MAY TAKE LONGER
In private hospitals, when the resident doctor receives emergency patients, he has to call the appropriate specialist in - and this may take some time.
- Dr Chia Shi-Lu, an SGH orthopaedic surgeon and member of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health, on why it makes sense to treat emergency cases at public hospitals


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<!--close .storyExtras-->The specialists who issued the joint statement on Friday were Associate Professor Mohan Tiru, chairman of the Singapore Residency Advisory Committee of Emergency Medicine; Professor V. Anatharaman, chairman of the Chapter of Emergency Physicians at the Academy of Medicine; Associate Professor Lim Swee Han, president of the Singapore Society of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor Goh Siang Hong, chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and Dr Chiu Ming Terk, chairman of the National Trauma Committee at the Ministry of Health (MOH).

 

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The Misinformation:

http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_801181.html

[h=1]Raffles Hospital not for multiple trauma cases[/h]
Published on May 21, 2012

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<!--close .storyLeft-->MADAM Shirley Woon asked why the victims in the recent three-way Bugis crash were not taken to Raffles Hospital, but to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), which are farther away ('Why weren't crash victims taken to nearest hospital?'; last Tuesday).
For severe and multiple trauma patients, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) emergency ambulance will take them to the nearest accident and emergency department that is equipped to deal with such complexities of care.
In the accident referred to by Madam Woon, while Raffles Hospital is located close to the accident site, it is not equipped to deal with multiple trauma cases, and thus the SCDF had to take the patients to SGH and TTSH, which were the nearest fully equipped facilities to deal with such emergencies.
Bey Mui Leng (Ms)
Director
Corporate Communications
Ministry of Health
Colonel Yazid Abdullah
Director, Public Affairs Department
Singapore Civil Defence Force



The HARD TRUTH:

Raffles Hospital well-equipped to handle multiple trauma cases round the clock

Published on May 24, 2012


IT IS an established procedure that Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) 995 ambulances currently take patients only to designated public hospitals ('Raffles Hospital not for multiple trauma cases' by the Ministry of Health and SCDF, Monday; in reply to 'Why weren't crash victims taken to nearest hospital?' by Madam Shirley Woon, May 15).

This was explained by the ministry and SCDF in last Saturday's report in The New Paper ('Why victims not sent to nearer hospital?').

However, Raffles Hospital receives emergency cases on a daily basis brought in by private ambulances and vehicles, and air ambulances.

Such emergency cases include victims of industrial and construction accidents, as well as overseas patients with traumatic injuries evacuated to the hospital by medical assistance and evacuation companies.

We manage such trauma cases as a matter of normal and regular practice.

In the past several years, our 24-hour emergency centre has received and treated casualties of road traffic accidents that had occurred in the vicinity of the hospital, and who were brought in by passers-by.

Such patients are resuscitated and stabilised by the duty doctors, and admitted for surgery or procedures and further treatment as required.

Our priority in all such circumstances is always to put the patients' needs first and to save lives.

Dr Prem Kumar Nair

General Manager

Raffles Hospital
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[makapaaa]

Despite paying these FAP ministers by the billions, they are too lazy to update themselves with the latest information. And when exposed, they choose the easy way out to be self-denial mode instead of re-examining and improving their policies. Say, do you still want such greedy and lazy people to lead the country?

 

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Despite paying these FAP ministers by the billions, they are too lazy to update themselves with the latest information. And when exposed, they choose the easy way out to be self-denial mode instead of re-examining and improving their policies. Say, do you still want such greedy and lazy people to lead the country?

Money have made their mind foggy.
Enriching themselves with the blood of citizens.