I have been thinking about how Singapore is advancing so rapidly as a globalised nation, becoming one of the region's fastest growing and is on the world map for many many reasons. But 'people' as one of its reasons, I am not too sure.
Read in the news yesterday about a case in which a mom-to-be (of twins, in fact, dragon+phoenix twins, which in chinese means a boy and a girl) died because of some blood clot. The only way to save her was blood tranfusions. But the doctor needed to seek higher authorities before they could allow to use the blood. The husband also gathered all his relatives to be at the Blood Bank Singapore to donate blood. It was 10 mins before they were officially open for the day, but none of the staff is willing to speak to him. They said, "It is not time yet, 10 more minutes." But the husband was very desperate at the door.
In the end, the woman could not be saved.
How could this kind of mentality and mindset still exist in this first world nation? Isn't saving a life important? Surely there should be some compassion and understanding in such situations. People worked till they have forgotten what is compassion. It is sad. I believe the person who refused to entertained any queries 'because it is not time to work' will be guilty conscious for the rest of his or her life. Where is the big picture, people? Do we only have the hardware but no software? What we need desperately now is not the infrastructure, but matters of the heart and mind.
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nice blog
Blood shortage was not cause of death
Madam Swee Lay Kuan, 44, was admitted to Raffles Hospital last Thursday for bleeding. And when it did not stop two days later, she was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, where she delivered twins — a boy and a girl. But on Monday she died from a severe blood condition.
At her wake on Tuesday, her distraught husband Jason Low told Channel 8 News there was not enough blood to save his wife, and doctors could not get around the protocol of getting permission from higher management to have more blood released to help his wife. Low said he was told his wife had overshot a transfusion limit and doctors needed permission to release more blood. Believing that the hospital had run out of blood supplies, Mr Low, 43, had rallied nearly 200 friends and family members on Sunday to donate blood to save Mdm Swee.
Raffles Hospital clarified that it is common practice to ask relatives and well-wishers to help replenish stock, but she was not denied blood. Hospital's spokeswoman Liang Hwee Ting said: "No approval from the hospital's higher authority is required." Her death was due to Disseminated Intra-vascular Coagulopathy (DIVC), an acute blood coagulation problem arising from massive bleeding and transfusion. Mdm Swee's death certificate stated that she died of cardio-respiratory failure. A coroner's inquiry will be held to find out how she died. (Source: Today. July 12 2007. By Ansley Ng; Channel NewsAsia. July 12 2007. By Ng Baoying/Chua Su Sien)
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