Comparison between IMH and TTSH, CGH.

Comparison between IMH and TTSH, CGH.

1.       Unadjustable beds

2.       No help buttons to press

3.       Bathe 1 time and they’ll flare up

4.       No cordless phone

5.       SHOUT to give medicine

6.       Unable to use our Ipads and Iphones [feels like jail].

11/8/2012 Saturday 12:16pm

Feedback: TTSH (Tan Tock Seng Hospital), Changi General Hospital (CGH), gives medicine on our bedsides, bed to bed. They serve you well.

-          We can even adjust our bed! The height, elevation and cot-side of the beds!

-          You press a button, and the nurse will come.

-          You can bathe 3 times per day and nobody cares, but in IMH, bathing just one time and the Health Attendant – Annie Woo Suet Heng and nurses would flare up.

-          In TTSH, they even have a cordless phone where we can make phonecalls anytime and anywhere! In IMH, the phone is stuck at the counter and only the earpiece/mouth is given to us at 8pm once daily.

-          IMH gives their medicine by SHOUTING. Yes, shouting out a patient’s name. And we have to run there, or else by 10 seconds, they will call your name even louder, screaming and blaming you for not responding to their call.

The beds at IMH are flat out and hard as hard cheese. We can’t even adjust the height, elevation and don’t even talk about a cot-side to prevent us from falling.

In all the hospitals in Singapore, you press a button and a nurse will be there in less than a minute. But there’s nothing short of even a tiny small plug to alert nurses while you’re on the bed. These immobile patients can lie on their beds after they’ve urined for more than an hour without nurses knowing they’re soaked. Those badly affected by the side effects of psychiatric medicine can lay tied up in bed for 6 hours without the assurance and constant supervision of nurses. And we don’t have a button to alert the nurses, especially in our ordeal of being uncomfortable eg rolling up of eyes.

If the ward is afraid of mentally ill-ed patients repeatedly pressing the buttons to ask the nurses to come repeatedly, one could educate them on that button and warn them only press them when really needing help. This button could help tons!

In TTSH, I have heard of accounts of patients there able to use their Ipads and Iphones there. But everything comes to empty when it comes to IMH. We are strip bare of our properties and looking at the fenced up windows, we seem like we are in jail.

All in all, a total disappointment or more than a disappointment in the facilities and service of the hospital. In the one and only, IMH.