Cynthia Koh Recounts How A Hospital Patient Screamed At Nurses 'Cos He Couldn’t Get The TV To Work
Cynthia Koh shared a timely reminder on her IG stories today (Feb 15) about how we should be kinder to healthcare workers, especially when hospitals are experiencing a “manpower shortage”.
The 47-year-old was admitted to Mount Alvernia Hospital on Jan 29 for pelvic inflammatory disease.
She was admitted to Mount Alvernia Hospital just before Chinese New Year
During her stay, she witnessed a patient “screaming at two nurses on night duty at 12.30am because his HDMI cable [couldn’t] hook up to the TV”.
“I could hear him screaming from my room so loudly. The nurse was so shaken after. She hooked me up to my IV machine and forgot to [turn it on],” she recalled.
Cynthia's posts about her recent hospital experience
Cynthia then said that she would not be describing said patient in her post, but wanted to shame him for “being so unkind to our nurses and being an a**hole to the ladies”.
“Please remember that it’s a hospital, not a hotel. It’s a place to rest and recover. Not party and be served. Please place self entitlement issues at the excess baggage counter. You don’t need it. (sic),” she wrote.
The actress also shared this post, which is believed to be submitted by a local nurse
Cynthia also shared a post from IG account @sgnightingales, which discussed the “really really bad and unsafe” situation at KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital’s emergency decon area.
The account is described as a platform which “allow [Singapore] nurses to share their struggles”.
A decon area, short for decontamination area, is where patients who arrive at the A&E are triaged and tested for COVID-19 before subsequent arrangements are made for admission, transport, treatment and/or medication.
The anonymous submission claims that the nurses “cannot cope anymore” as the decon area is “always flooded with patients” and basically has “no system”.
They added that the area, which is supposed to hold only 20 patients, sometimes sees as many as 50 patients. As a result, they are “literally already drown to death, soul is just working (sic)”.
Photos: Cynthia Koh/Instagram
