Khaw Boon Wan apologized for KKH drug error on his blog

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Health Minister Mr Khaw Boon Wan had apologized to the two victims of the KKH medication blunder on his blog in an entry dated 22 November 2009:

“The chemo overdose errors in KKH were human errors. They should not have happened, but they did. We are sorry for the mistakes and are all saddened by the incidents,” he wrote in the opening paragraph.

Mr Khaw also commended the Yip family for their magnanimity in forgiving the two pharmacists responsible for the error.

“We all make mistakes but we must readily admit them and learn from the mistakes so that they do not get repeated.

To err is human; to forgive, divine. To be able to forgive requires a higher level of wisdom and generosity,” he added.

While Mr Khaw has apologized for the unfortunate error, nothing is heard from KKH CEO Prof Ivy Ng, who is incidentally the wife of Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen.

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Health Minister Mr Khaw Boon Wan had apologized to the two victims of the KKH medication blunder on his blog in an entry dated 22 November 2009:

“The chemo overdose errors in KKH were human errors. They should not have happened, but they did. We are sorry for the mistakes and are all saddened by the incidents,” he wrote in the opening paragraph.

Mr Khaw also commended the Yip family for their magnanimity in forgiving the two pharmacists responsible for the error.

“We all make mistakes but we must readily admit them and learn from the mistakes so that they do not get repeated.

To err is human; to forgive, divine. To be able to forgive requires a higher level of wisdom and generosity,” he added.

While Mr Khaw has apologized for the unfortunate error, nothing is heard from KKH CEO Prof Ivy Ng, who is incidentally the wife of Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen.

Mr Khaw’s gentlemanly gesture will surely win him much respect and goodwill from Singaporeans.

Singapore’s ministers have rarely apologized or accept responsibility for their mistakes and there is no opposition in parliament to hold them accountable.

Minister of Environment Dr Yaacob Ibrahim was quick to pin the blame for the flooding at Bukit Timah last week on a “freak” event which occurs “once in fifty years”.

There was no apology from him to the distressed residents of Bukit Timah who have suffered a loss from the flood.

Instead he urged them to be “patient” as construction work to widen the canals will only commence next year.

Mr Khaw is one of the only two ministers who keeps a blog and Facebook page. The other is Foreign Minister George Yeo.

Mr Khaw’s blog was started in September this year and he has been updating it on a regular basis. His Facebook has garnered more than 1,200 fans so far.

For some strange reasons, the English media chose to leave out Mr Khaw’s apology in their coverage of his blog entry, focusing instead on his exhortation to KKH and other hospitals to learn from the incident.