Permanent Resident in NUH

[Chickenfarm]

If he behaves like that after retirement, god bless his servicemen when this guy was walking around in his occifer uniform.

[RadX]

If he behaves like that after retirement, god bless his servicemen when this guy was walking around in his occifer uniform.

 

 

u shuddap lah you...i see how u treat yoru chickens.....i faint...kekekekekek

[13177]

 

 

nursing home usually run by private that he can't stay for free.

But hospital also not free le?!

[Watwheels]

This is called 打死都唔走.

[Atrecord]

 

Sometimes its bo pian. A hospital cannot allow a patient just any sort of bed that becomes available, due to a myriad of factors.

 

I understand it seems frustrating to anyone not working in this line though. But it can't be helped.

 

I know that, cos i was in healthcare before too. But to have to wait almost 12 hr for a bed was stretching it... The doc had said typical waiting time was 6 hr, but they started counting not from the time of admission, but from the time the staff starts putting the patient on queue, which was about 2 hr after the doc told me that they would ward her...

 

And best thing: one nurse called me at about 10 pm, to say my relative would be wheeled to the ward soon and they will start preparing her, as it will take about 15-20 min. I went in, waited 30 min, then went to check with the nurse station, and they said they didn't call me! I showed them the number on my phone, and they brought me to another room as the number was from the next-door observation room. The nurse there checked, and after 5 min told me they called the wrong number!!!

 

It was another good 1.5 hr later that they finally found her a bed... almost 13-14 hr after first being brought to A&E...

[Atrecord]

 

The intermediate to long term care sector faces a bed crunch too. That's why you see a frantic rush to build more healthcare facilities.

 

All the care facilities, from acute care (the general hospitals), to intermediate (community hospitals) and long-term (nursing homes) have a bed crunch, because of 2 factors:

 

1) population increase. When population was 3-4 million, we already had SGH, TTSH, NUH, CGH, AH (don't count KKH). Now that population has increased significantly, we only have one more, KTPH.

 

2) aging population. When the main hospitals were first built, population demographics would have shown that there was proportionately less elderly, as compared to now. This will get worse.

 

What will happen to us when it is our time???

[Atrecord]

 

Difficult to staff them.

Not exactly the glamorous side of medical/healthcare services.

 

 

It is difficult to staff any of the healthcare facilities, esp if the staff have to deal with unreasonable patients and families.

 

I once spoke to an experienced nurse at a health-screening clinic. She said that the job was much better for her compared to an earlier job in a hospital ward, where it was on shift work, and when she had to help patients to 'clean their backsides' every day...

 

Talk about glamour...

 

They are also not paid fantastic. Not to mention the danger of being exposed to life-threatening virus like during the SARS days.

 

Any student growing up and graduating soon would strive to get into glamorous jobs like banking, accounting, law, etc., and shun being a nurse.

 

This is the reality...

[Hotshot85]

 

I know that, cos i was in healthcare before too. But to have to wait almost 12 hr for a bed was stretching it... The doc had said typical waiting time was 6 hr, but they started counting not from the time of admission, but from the time the staff starts putting the patient on queue, which was about 2 hr after the doc told me that they would ward her...

 

And best thing: one nurse called me at about 10 pm, to say my relative would be wheeled to the ward soon and they will start preparing her, as it will take about 15-20 min. I went in, waited 30 min, then went to check with the nurse station, and they said they didn't call me! I showed them the number on my phone, and they brought me to another room as the number was from the next-door observation room. The nurse there checked, and after 5 min told me they called the wrong number!!!

 

It was another good 1.5 hr later that they finally found her a bed... almost 13-14 hr after first being brought to A&E...

 

12hrs waiting time is actually the norm over at KTPH, but I can't disclose the actual figures la haha.

 

And, yes, its true that the waiting time for the bed only starts upon being added to the "queue", due to the fact that not every patient that visits A&E will definitely require admission. Only very certain clear cut cases, upon admission, will automatically be added to the queue. Majority of others gotta wait for test results, observation etc etc.

 

I won't say I fully know what were the circumstances behind your granny's long waiting time though. Probably due to staff negligence in some ways, plus others.

[Lala81]

 

12hrs waiting time is actually the norm over at KTPH, but I can't disclose the actual figures la haha.

 

And, yes, its true that the waiting time for the bed only starts upon being added to the "queue", due to the fact that not every patient that visits A&E will definitely require admission. Only very certain clear cut cases, upon admission, will automatically be added to the queue. Majority of others gotta wait for test results, observation etc etc.

 

I won't say I fully know what were the circumstances behind your granny's long waiting time though. Probably due to staff negligence in some ways, plus others.

 

waiting for bed in TTSH is just a norm.

I got A class patient cannot get a A class bed during my shift. Lol don't want to wait in the observation room with the other "commoners".

 

Asked for 1 of the VIP suite but BMU says no. only VIP can get the suite.

[Hotshot85]

 

waiting for bed in TTSH is just a norm.

I got A class patient cannot get a A class bed during my shift. Lol don't want to wait in the observation room with the other "commoners".

 

Asked for 1 of the VIP suite but BMU says no. only VIP can get the suite.

 

Sad to say, policies regarding usage of suites isn't something humble servants like us in BMU can change.

 

Not that I wanna help these kinda snobbish people also la

[Ahgong]

It says that he amputated of four toes on his right leg?! How come he is not convenient to move around and take care of himself?

 

Anyway, he was a retired army officer? Thinking if he also behave like this when he was in the army?

 

probably. i pity the soldiers under his watch.

 

[Kamani]

 

probably. i pity the soldiers under his watch.

 

I pity the wife and 2 kids that left him, for better peace for sure

[Gitanic]

 

probably. i pity the soldiers under his watch.

 

 

I pity the wife and 2 kids that left him, for better peace for sure

in view of all these i order him knock it down 1000 times.

Edited March 21, 2014 by Gitanic