The actress, who moved to Sydney in July with her boyfriend Edwin Goh, says her revelation came about after a conversation with a nurse that used to work in Singapore.
, 29, in July this year and has been sharing content about her life in Australia thus far.
On August 25, in a video posted on her Instagram, Rachel shared more about the circumstances surrounding her dad’s passing, and how he “died all alone” in a Singapore hospital. She revealed that while nurses in Singapore “can be assigned up to 12 patients to handle at any one time”, in Australia, each nurse is only assigned to a maximum of 6 patients.
She went on to share that her dad was transferred from the emergency ward to the general ward as the doctor had assessed that Rachel’s dad “is not gonna last the day”.However, Rachel and her family could not go to the general ward immediately after the transfer, as they were required to undergo Covid testing.“He was all alone. No one even informed us. We had to go up to the ward and discover his cold, dead body alone in the ward with no staff around him,” Rachel said.
One netizen commented: “Our hospitals are understaffed, coupled together with an aging population in Singapore, I say we are going for a hell of a ride.”
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