Ng Teng Fong General Hospital is the first and currently the only hospital to offer the initiative. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Mr Hong Kaw was never comfortable whenever he was in hospital and would hanker to go home.
“After two days and with still no response from my father, we decided to have him brought home,” said Ms Hong, a treasury executive. She mooted the idea after a young patient who wanted to go home could not and died in the ICU in 2021. “Here, it has become more of palliative care, where some of the tubes have been removed and the patient is given oxygen to help with the breathing and medication to manage the pain – everything in small doses,” Dr Tan said.No one should die alone, and be left undiscovered for weeks
IAmGoingHome is supported by the JurongHealth Fund and, over the last seven months, it has successfully assisted in seven cases. Another patient to make it home was Mr Johari Rusdy. He suffered from diabetes and hypertension for 16 years, with his condition worsening in the final four years, said his daughter Noora Yusop, 42.
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