People Ignored Woman Who Fainted in The Clementi Mall; Netizens Debated on Whether One Should Help

There are many questions that would be debated forever:

• What comes first, chicken or egg?
• At a movie theatre, which armrest belongs to you?
• Why is the heart shape not shaped like the organ?

And today, we’re posed with one more question: When you see someone fainting in public now, do you help or do you just call the ambulance?

A few people in The Clementi Mall were faced with this Catch-22 situation two days ago.

People Ignored Woman Who Fainted in The Clementi Mall

This afternoon, Facebook Page All Singapore Stuff posted a video that happened in The Clementi Mall.

Apparently, a woman had fainted in The Clementi Mall in Jinjja Chicken, which is located in the rather crowded basement of the mall.

No one was crowding around to help her, and a man used a non-contact thermometer to measure her temperature.

Netizens, being the most rational and intelligent human beings in the world, started a debate on what should have been done instead:

One Facebook user said it best, claiming that a short video like this couldn’t tell the whole story: maybe someone from the mall had advised others to stay away from her.

And it turned out that that’s the case.

Jinjja Chicken Responds

Jinjja Chicken told Mothership.sg that it actually happened two days back, on 11 March 2020, at about 2:30pm.

The woman wasn’t a customer at Jinjja Chicken; she had just left NTUC FairPrice and rested at the outlet. She was wearing a mask, which could imply that she wasn’t feeling well.

After she fainted, a customer in the shop had called an ambulance while the store manager contacted the mall’s security immediately.

And read this: it was the security that instructed the manager to stay away from the woman, and not to allow any customers to go near her as the ambulance was on the way.

When the medical team arrived, the woman had regained consciousness but was still taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.

It’s unknown if the lady had COVID-19, but the restaurant has since been sanitised twice.

And this begets the question: What do we really do when we see someone fainting during this COVID-19 outbreak period?

Well, you’d be shocked that gov.sg has an article about it, but it’s more towards a cardiac arrest victim.

Person With Cardiac Arrest During COVID-19 Period

According to gov.sg, members of the public can do a “hands-only CPR” without the need for mouth-to-mouth breathing. This is because a person who “suffers a cardiac arrest can experience death within minutes, with the chances of survival dropping by 10% for every minute without CPR.”

There’s even a video to show how it can be done:

However, how about the case of the woman who could have fainted due to other reasons?

That question is still up for debate. But since you can’t do much as you’re most probably not a medical professional, waiting for the ambulance might be the best option during this period.