Monday, November 16, 2009

KKH Blunder

This news was covered by the Straits Times a couple of days back, where human error at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) led to two cancer patients being given more chemotherapy drugs than they were supposed to get. Heres the article if you have not read about it.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20091112-179378.html

I feel so sorry for both the patients that they have to suffer further due to human error, in spite of their own medical condition. Having to go through chemotheraphy is bad enough torture, but to get an overdose from it, I cannot imagine...

I was appalled when I stumbled upon this blog, which belongs to the relative of one of the cancer patient, which details the real details, not from the media's point of view, but from the patient's relative

http://chunkie84.blogspot.com/

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