My wife and I went to visit an old friend (Florence) Chang Yin Yoke at the Assunta Hospital in Mariam Ward room#4316 as we heard she is recovering from a Dengue attack since last week. We found her up and about, and is recovering quite nicely, but she almost lost her life due to apparent abject negligence on the part of some medical personnel at the Trauma Section in UMMC, also famously known as the University Hospital Petaling Jaya.
Let me relate her story. Sometime early last week, Florence was down with fever and went to her family physician for the normal check up. When the fever did not subside and she began to suffer excruciating pains, especially around the shoulders, the family physician took a blood test and found that her blood count was low, and getting lower. Being a retired Govt servant (Intan), and also the wife of a retired Police Officer, she went to UMMC(UH), on Thursday I think, and was sent back with some medicine. On Friday evening, when she started vomiting, and still in agonizing pain, she went to UH again this time to the Trauma centre, armed with a letter from the family physician saying that she is likely to have the Dengue and her blood test showing that her blood count was dangerously low. The doctor in charge, apparently of a Middle Eastern countenance (observed through pain filled eyes), told her she was ok, no need for further blood tests and prescribed her 5 types of medication and sent her home! Florence knew she was in bad shape, and vomiting all the way, her daughter drove her to Assunta Hospital, the nearest hospital around. Immediately on examining her, the doctors at the emergency section of Assunta warded her and gave her blood transfusion, and also sent word to the health authorities to fog the location where she purportedly got the dengue (Subang Jaya).
Today, when I saw her at noon, she is fit and chirpy. But I dread to think, if she had followed the instruction of the doctor at the UH Trauma centre on Friday, and went home, would she be too late to be saved??
Quite a harrowing thought for us Government Pensioners, who have no medical Insurance :-((
near death experience for patient
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