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  • Insurance Company Not Helpful, Daughter Turned To Crowfunding, Raise $250,000 To Bring Comatose Father Back To Singapore

    Insurance Company Not Helpful, Daughter Turned To Crowfunding, Raise $250,000 To Bring Comatose Father Back To Singapore

    The Singaporean who suffered a cardiac arrest and lapsed into a coma in Tokyo just over a week ago is due to arrive in Singapore on Tuesday.

    The team from EMA Global, the medical assistance company appointed for the evacuation, left Singapore for Tokyo, a spokesman told The Straits Times on Monday (May 1).

    His 25-year-old daughter, Ms Eileen Cheong, had successfully raised $250,000 on fundraising platform Give.Asia to get her father home to Singapore.

    She wrote in her campaign that her family had flown to Tokyo on April 19 to celebrate her mother’s cancer remission when her father had a heart attack.

    He was resuscitated and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at Toho University Omori Medical Center on the same day and placed on mechanical support.

    Japanese doctors told her family that they could not determine how long her father would stay in a coma.

    The family owed the hospital about $120,000, and it would cost at least another $120,000 to bring Mr Cheong home by medical evacuation, according to Miss Cheong.

    Ms Cheong wrote that her dad’s travel insurers MSIG informed her family that they were “unlikely to have a successful claim as his collapse was attributable to a pre-existing heart condition”.

    The 25-year-old, who is a fresh graduate earning less than $3,000 a month, turned to crowdfunding on Give.Asia to get her father home.

    In an update on Saturday evening, Ms Cheong said that all $250,000 had been raised.

    Ms Cheong had said in a campaign update on April 30 that her father was in a stable condition. She thanked all contributors and donors and promised to post an update on the situation soon.

    A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had told previously said that it was aware of the incident and that the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo was rendering the necessary consular assistance to the family.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Chinsese Couple Helped Malay Woman And Husband Who Suffered Heart Attack At A Wedding

    Chinsese Couple Helped Malay Woman And Husband Who Suffered Heart Attack At A Wedding

    Stomper Maimunah will always be grateful to the nurse and the couple who stepped forward to help her husband when he collapsed at a colleague’s wedding.

    In a phone interview with Stomp, Maimunah recounted her story:

    “I was at a wedding with my husband and grandson when my spouse suddenly collapsed.

    “There were so many people at the event and but many of them were too shocked to come forward.

    “Some of the people there even pronounced my husband dead. I was crying hysterically as I couldn’t believe it.

    “Then a woman came forward and declared that she was a qualified nurse. She conducted CPR on my husband.

    “She did all she could to save my husband.

    “My grandson and I were both crying hysterically, during this tough time a couple approached us.

    “During this tough time a couple approached us. The wife hugged me, prayed for me reassured me that everything will be fine.

    “They provided me some emotional support that helped me regained my sanity.

    “The CPR was successful and they managed to revive my husband but he failed consciousness.”

    Maimunah added that her husband was rushed into the ambulance as soon as the paramedics came.

    However, strict policies meant that only one person could travel in the ambulance with her husband.

    At this point, the couple who had offered support to Maimunah told the distraught woman that they’d bring her grandson to the hospital.

    Fortunately, Maimunah was able to convince the paramedics to allow her to bring her grandson in the vehicle.

    At the hospital, Maimunah’s husband was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and was put on life support.

    While she was waiting for her husband to recover, she noticed that the caring couple from the wedding had made their way to the hospital.

    Maimunah said:

    “I don’t them but they were there to offer support.

    “There were so many people at the wedding but this couple rushed down to see how my husband was doing.

    “I was very touched by their caring act.

    “They have become like family to me.

    “They bought food for my family and even made sure that it was halal. They kept praying for me even though we’re not of the same religion.

    “They were supportive.”

    Maimunah added that her husband has since made a speedy recovery but still has breathing difficulties.

    She also mentioned how the couple had come to the hospital a few days later to visit her husband and the family.

    Maimunah told told Stomp:

    “I am really very thankful to them. I don’t even know how to say ‘Thank you’.

    “I feel so touched.

    “I just want to extend my gratitude to the couple and the nurse for helping me in my time of need.

    “It is very rare to see people like these nowadays.”

     

    Source: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg