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  • Gunshot At KTPH: Suspect To Be Charged Today, Faces Possible Death Penalty

    Gunshot At KTPH: Suspect To Be Charged Today, Faces Possible Death Penalty

    Gunshots were fired in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) at about 7.05pm on Saturday (Jun 20), police confirmed.

    Police had escorted a 24-year-old Singaporean man, who had been arrested the day before for motor vehicle theft, to KTPH to seek medical attention after he complained of chest pains. While inside one of the hospital’s examination rooms, the man attempted to escape and a struggle ensued, during which he snatched the police officer’s revolver. Shots were fired from the revolver.

    The suspect was subsequently subdued and the situation brought under control, said police, who assured that members of the public were not in any danger at any time.

    The suspect sustained superficial injuries, while the 31-year-old police officer sustained gunshot wounds to his thumb and foot. The police officer was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

    A Khoo Teck Puat Hospital spokesman said the police officer needed immediate microsurgery on his hand and a hand surgeon was immediately available at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. On Sunday evening, police said he had already undergone surgery and was in stable condition.

    The authorities added that the suspect will be produced in Court on Monday at 2pm, on a holding charge of Unlawful Discharge of Firearms under Section 4(1) of the Arms Offences Act Chapter 14, which carries the death penalty.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Police Officer Shot At Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital

    Police Officer Shot At Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital

    A police officer was hurt in a rare shooting incident yesterday evening.

    According to witnesses, three gunshots rang out from a consultation room at the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) Accident & Emergency (A&E) department.

    A suspect had earlier been escorted to the hospital by two police officers, after he complained of chest pains.

    According to sources, one officer had stepped out of the room and the suspect allegedly attacked the remaining policeman.

    In the struggle, the shots were fired.

    Sources report that two paramedics, who were walking past the private room in KTPH, rushed in to help subdue the suspect.

    “They jumped on him before he could fire again,” he said.

    The paramedics were visibly shocked when the shots were fired, said the man who did not want to be named.

    There was a smell of gunpowder in the air.

    The immediate worry was whether the suspect would run amok in the hospital and hurt more people.

    The incident happened just after 7pm.

    A police spokesman said: “He was swiftly brought under control and remains in police custody. The situation is under control and members of the public were not in any danger at any time.

    “The accused sustained superficial injuries, while the 31-year-old officer sustained gunshot wounds to his thumb and foot. His condition is stable.

    “Police investigations are ongoing.”

    SPECIALIST

    The injured officer was rushed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). He was moved because he needed a specialist hand surgeon and one was immediately available, said a KTPH spokesman.

    Family members of the wounded officer were spotted at TTSH late last night. A police officer was seen talking to two family members, giving them an account of what happened.

    TNPS understands that the officer was hit between the thumb and index finger.

    The family members declined to comment when approached.

    Police officers milled around both hospitals last night.

    Assistant Commisioner of Police Lian Ghim Hua was seen arriving at TTSH around 1am.

    Relatives of patients waiting at the A&E department at KTPH did not seem to be aware of the drama that had taken place earlier.

    A national serviceman, who wanted to be known only as Mr Leen, said he had been at the hospital since noon.

    The 21-year-old was visiting his grandfather who was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

    He said he did not hear anything even though the ICU is near where the incident happened.

    “If there was a shot fired, I had no idea about it. I couldn’t believe it when a friend told me through Facebook,” said Mr Leen.

    “He was swiftly brought under control and remains in police custody. The situation is under control and members of the public were not in any danger at any time.”

    – A police spokesman

    Past cases of gun-snatching

    FEBRUARY 1989

    Two men, trying to break into a shop, ran in separate directions after being spotted by police officers at Block 107, Tampines Street 11.

    A police constable caught one of them, Ong Yeow Tian, at Block 127.

    Ong stabbed the officer in the neck and grabbed his revolver, which was drawn. He shot the cop in the head before running away. The officer died of his injury several hours later.

    During the manhunt, Ong used the stolen gun and shot at two other police officers.

    He was caught and hanged for his crimes.

    The incident prompted the study and later introduction of the snatch-resistant holster.

    MAY 1998

    Two police officers spotted a group of men at Woodlands Street 81 and approached them.

    They ran off in different directions. But one of the officers, a corporal, caught up with Anthony Tan Cheng Lock.

    During the struggle, Tan grabbed the officer’s revolver and shot him in the thigh before running away with the revolver.

    A manhunt ensued and Tan was tracked down to his mother’s flat at Chai Chee Street. As the tactical team stormed the flat, Tan shot himself in the head.

    He was on a drug supervision order and had skipped mandatory reporting dates.

    MAY 2002

    Syed Mohamad Nazmi Syed Alawi Alhamid, 33, armlocked a female Cisco constable and tried to grab her revolver, which was housed in a snatch-resistant holster.

    As he struggled to remove the gun, the Cisco officer’s colleagues noticed the struggle and came to her rescue.

    Nazmi was pulled away.

    He was later jailed for six years and given nine strokes of the cane.

    Hard to remove gun from holster

    SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO

    Police officers escorting accused persons are armed with the .38 Taurus revolver.

    1 The revolver is a housed in a snatch-resistant holster moulded to the gun. The gun can only be drawn vertically. This makes it difficult, though not impossible, to forcibly yank the revolver out during a struggle.

    2 A buckle over the cocking hammer prevents the gun from being fired while partially in the holster. As long as the cocking hammer cannot be pulled back, the loading chamber is unable to rotate and the gun cannot fire.

    3 All guns are further secured with a rubber lanyard which is secured to the butt of the revolver and the belt.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • PRC Nurse At KTPH Showed No Empathy For Family By Claiming Audibly That A Patient Was Gonna Die

    PRC Nurse At KTPH Showed No Empathy For Family By Claiming Audibly That A Patient Was Gonna Die

    Dear CEO of KTPH Hospital

    I received your service acknowledgment letter. And regrets i am not accepting your apologies for the incident which had happened to myself on 30 December 2014.

    The past 17 days of my late mum being hospitalized in the hospital indeed had been very traumatizing for us as a family in whole. I had rushed all the way from abroad to be with my mum and stood vigil by her daily on every morning at 0600 hrs till late nights without fail. The hope of seeing someone you love dearly to get better made me brushed away all hecticness, jet lags and all other challenges i faced during these critical period. Mind you, i have to go through the emotional roller coaster and also taking care of my 6 mth old infant at night and my daddy too. Nevertheless faith and pray kept me and my family together albeit all these.

    1. On 30 December as i was in the process of getting my dad the family room next to ICU ward, one of your nurse (a china national) by the name of Cong from ICU unit ward answered a phone call in my presence at the ward’s reception. She probably didnt know i was related to patient she was talking about which is my late mum.

    Someone from a control centre called her up and she can cheekily answered in mandarin, “na ge patient ha yao se liao” which is clearly translated in English as “that patient going to die already.” These comments was relayed without abit of remorse and not an inch of empathy.

    Here we are going through grievances, and your “foreign talent nurse” who had been assigned to “nurse” my late mum passed such a remarks.

    A. Dont your nurses know of words taboo especially when working in such environment? The words i.e. die, mati, se is very very sensitive especially for a patient or their family be it in at any ward. And what made it worst, when my mum is fighting for her life.
    B. How can i be really sure your nurses who had been nursing my m been competence enough to handle my mum for the past 17 days?
    C. Your foreign talent nurse passed such remarks bluntly without considering the presence of member of public?

    3. How i can be sure that she or the nurses there had been compassionate and dedicated their service to the patients without being racists?

    2. On 24 Dec 2014, it was also brought to my attention that my family members had witnessed my mum who was in coma suffered blood loss while the nurses did a procedure on her. There was a pool of blood on the bed and under the bed. When i came, i saw my late mum’s hand between fingers were all covered with blood. When questioned we were told that bandage was not “tight” enuff and nurses had to rush to another patient at a nearby bed for resuscitation. My mum temperature dropped tremendously to 33 degrees for the night. Please iron my doubts below.

    A. Does that made my mum condition less important, hence she can suffer these lost of blood?
    B. If your nurses are competent why the assigned nurse did not ensure that my mum was well taken care first and then proceed with the resuscitation?
    C. How qualified are your nurses to handle such situations? Is there any contigency plannings when hansling of critical emergency in an ICU ward?

    I am truly purturbed with these incidences and very very traumatized when i hear someone being admitted to the same hospital. Until this very moment as i am writing these, i cant help recalling the words your nurse had muttered and the sight of my late mum’s blood.

    This is mind depressing for me and i hate to remind myself that things could have been better handled.

    Thank you,

    F.
    Daughter of late Mdm H

     

    Source: www.therealsingapore.com