Earlier this week, some family members of those involved in the Mindsville@Napiri cluster went online to air their grievances about how the situation was handled by the authorities. They urged greater sensitivity when dealing with people who have special needs.
Ms Amilia Koh, 26, whose 34-year-old brother has special needs and is a client of Mindsville@Napiri, wrote in a Facebook post on Monday about her experience, which “demonstrated the incompetence and lack of organisation within the MOH administrative office”.
The special education teacher wrote that while she had informed MOH that she would be caring for her intellectually disabled brother during his quarantine order, she was initially prohibited from accompanying her brother to the government quarantine facility.
Later, during her brother’s swab test, Ms Koh said that she was instructed to “watch from a distance” and was allowed to assist the swabbers only after her brother became increasingly frustrated and on the brink of an aggressive meltdown after 30 minutes.
.............Ms Koh, who is now with her brother in a quarantine facility, said that she had received an apology from MOH yesterday.
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Ms Amilia Koh, 26, whose 34-year-old brother has special needs and is a client of Mindsville@Napiri, wrote in a Facebook post on Monday about her experience, which “demonstrated the incompetence and lack of organisation within the MOH administrative office”.
The special education teacher wrote that while she had informed MOH that she would be caring for her intellectually disabled brother during his quarantine order, she was initially prohibited from accompanying her brother to the government quarantine facility.
Later, during her brother’s swab test, Ms Koh said that she was instructed to “watch from a distance” and was allowed to assist the swabbers only after her brother became increasingly frustrated and on the brink of an aggressive meltdown after 30 minutes.
.............Ms Koh, who is now with her brother in a quarantine facility, said that she had received an apology from MOH yesterday.
https://tinyurI.com/52cxam67
