No handphones in IMH

No handphones in IMH

1/9/2012 Saturday 6:44pm

            Before I move on to other problems I’d want to say, I would like to say: loss of handphone is a very heart deafening thing. And besides loss, separation from your handphone destruct you as well.

            I am here to talk about: IMH does not allow any handphones, any digital devices, laptops or even your own mp3s to be in your hands/possession while you stay in the hospital. When you are admitted as an inpatient of IMH, and as I observe as I am in ward 34A, no handphones or digital devices are permitted to be in our possession, even if you are to stay 5 months in the hospital, it means total cut off from the connection to the world.

            Even in the isolation in army, the soldiers are able to use their handphones. Even now, the previous ban of restricting camera phones in the army is lifted. The army barracks now even allow the use of emailing, texting and in certain areas, taking photos. Please review the rules of disallowing handphones or devices in the ward because of the reliance and dependence on technology that drives all of us in this ever-connected world.

            Spent 5 months cooped up in a mental institution and moreover without connection to the world makes me like a crippled child stripped of my ability to walk and like a bird clipped of it’s wings. Stripped of our necessity of connecting to our own world is surmountable to killing us of our life. Slow killing, slow death that is.

            This impartiality and warped way of handling patients should warrant immediate attention. IMH should go about amending it’s ways of striking a balance between safety and not compromising patients being stuck here like in a gallow without their handphones and connection. If they want to see a more connected and enhanced group of patients.