IMH Wards all controlled by Foreign Nurses and staff.

IMH Wards all controlled by Foreign Nurses and staff.

23/7/2012 Monday 7:31pm

            Right now. Right now, realise the nurses all working here are ALL foreigners! SN Dong JunLi, Rhoda Dela Cruz, Llagas Grace Coloma, Marisol Nonod, Kyi Kyi Win and Noemi Cuyos. 6 nurses. ALL are from Philipines, Myanmar and China! Now, today this whole ward is under their care, the control of Philipinos, Myanmarese and the Republic of China! Since they are from these countries, (I don’t see nurses from America, or America), and as you know these countries and less economically stronger than Singapore in a sense, are these nurses out here, came to Singapore for money, or really, for the passion to nurse? Or is it they don’t have any other qualifications in Philipines except nursing but don’t wanna work in Philipines? O.O They always talk in an accented speech, it’s not like it’s an America accent. It’s a Myanmarese accent. And it sounds alien. It’s true! I’m not prejudicing but in this modern day and age, American accents are common, and more accepted.

16/7/2012 Monday 9:07am

            Before i move on, I would like to state a few complains I wanna make or an observation that I observed.

            Do you realise? There seems to be, or actually There are Alot of foreign nurses in ward 34A or in IMH! Llagas Coloma Grace, Dela Cruz Rhoda, Paje Noemi Cuyos, Ngun Vang Men, Ma Hiang Moe Myint, Narcissa A De Leon, Gopakumar Sindhu. Names that sounds so foreign, because they Are foreign! One thing about foreigners is that they don’t understand, if not fully, the culture and nitty-gritties of Singaporeans! But because you are giving service to Singaporeans, you should know well the culture and loves of Singaporeans! For example people who comes from the Philipines would be in the saturation of the Philipines’ culture, one nurse Rhoda Dela Cruz told me in Philipines, in their mental hospital, they use a hose, where patients stand as a crowd, and the nurse would use the hose to spray the patients – as a way to bathe. If you do that in Singapore, it would spark a riot by bathing in this manner. We would Stomp it. But anyway, this nurse has an impression from her Philipines’ days of the way of bathing and she counts Singaporeans very fortunate to have a whole bathroom to ourselves. So she finds alot of things in Singapore fortunate so when she assess the environment in ward 34A, even though the environment is terrible for us Singaporeans, she would think that it’s so okay because it’s a privilege for us already, because she doesn’t get that in Philipines. Now you see what I mean?

            The foreigners range from Philipines, China, India and even Myanmar. There is even a 34A case manager Gemma Angela who’s a Philipino, with a female doctor Erliza in 34A’s GP2 too. And I’m not sure is Doctor Manu Lal of ward 34A from India too. Philipines, China, India and even Myanmar. And we know that these countries, they are less cultured, developed or fortuned than Singapore. And I’m telling the truth.

            Not all foreign nurses are nasty too. Staff Nurse Lynn Marie and Esther Ngun Vang Men has been quite kind too. But still on the issue of unending foreign nurses in IMH,

            What I’m saying is that the standards of the foreign nurses is different from Singaporeans!

            I pose a challenge out there: have more Singaporeans working in IMH. This is what makes a Singaporean IMH Singaporean. There seems to be an obvious data that there are no large number of Singaporeans working in IMH, ESPECIALLY as nurses, even for male nurses. Singaporeans don’t wanna care for their fellow Singaporeans? Especially for IMH? That foreign nurses have to come in here and fill the space? I challenge Singaporeans to Take up the challenge and step up. Because we need you.

            I feel that foreign nurses don’t understand me, and they don’t know how to speak Singlish or Hokkien or Chinese. If not, speaking them well. Sometimes their accent saturated speaking makes irritated, especially when they talk to each other in their own language instead of the official English language. No racist/discriminatory remark here but as I said I find them a nail in a wood. Ie don’t freely give or understand me well.

            When I first came into IMH, I was already shocked at the state where I feel no Singaporean nurses want to work in Singapore’s IMH, where I see foreign nurses everywhere. Amend it.

            And of recent newspaper article on 13/8/2012 Monday, on Nightclub’s foreign entertainer quota cut – The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a circular sent to nightclub operator a week before 13/8/2012 that the Government is putting in efforts “to regulate the increasing dependency on foreign manpower”. A sure good sign of the independency of Singapore and Singaporeans not wanting to depend on foreigners in our workforce.

            Dr Faishal in the Straits Time’s August 18, Saturday, 2012 says it aptly: “But I think, more importantly, we need to get more Singaporeans to be involved in the community (and that means, the nursing community too), to dirty their hands. Only then will they realise that the whole process of community engagement is complex. It requires not only IQ, but also EQ, a lot of listening and a sense of realism.

            I would like to encouragement more young Singaporeans to come forward to be involved with any organisation, not only political organisations. It can be a voluntary welfare or other organisation.

            And I believe that you used to case your net wide, so that we get the best people and form a diverse team.

            And for me, what I am saying about IMH and me being in IMH requires a lot of listening and a sense of realism. I would like to encourage more Singaporeans to come forward to be involved with the mostly stigmatised institution. It is not only schools or our workplace we get involved in. IMH is one institution you can participate in as a voluntary organisation.

            You know, bottomline actually is, it’s not foreigners that I’m against coming to Singapore to work, but it’s where are they from? Mostly I get bombed by people coming from Philipines, China, Myanmar and India. And by ‘foreigners’ I mean people from there. Get more Australians, Americans and Europeans to come in! Why don’t I see them as nurse? Or maybe they suit a higher ranking job. They, I find, are more kinder, more understanding and more friendlier than any other nations’ citizens! Counting that everything ‘originates’ from America then. And Australia being a wonderful country. Because I’ve met many Australians being 10 times more kinder than any  other people. With Maroon 5, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga originating from these countries, what can be better? ;)