Re: Gms: My mum had a dangerous heart infection but was told to wait 2 days just for
if gms mother condition can allow a 2 day wait, then it not dangerous at all.
a relative walk into govt hospital a&e complaining of chest and back pain at 2200hr and was diagnosed abdominal aortic aneurysm. The senior vascular surgeon was call from his home and the patient was push into OP by 0230 after a battery of tests, CT scan etc etc... The whole OP took 7-8 hours and the patient was finally discharged home after 100+ days. The patient was in Cattle class bed category.
Not i defend hospital, but most hospitals do reserve a few beds for really serious danger cases, as illustrate by the case above. the above case shd be widely known among doctors as it very rare for patients to even make it out of OT alive, never mind walk out of hospital. All i can say is the hospital view gms's mom case as not life threatening and can wait while they attend to more life threatening patients. If gms disagree, he can jolly well bring his mom to another MOE hospital. Of all the hospital, why go KTH as it a rather small hospital? If it heart problem, shd have send her to SGH.