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Wake Up, Singapore Apologises & Says The Images in the KKH Saga Were Doctored Instead

2022-03-25 , 9:41 pm

Not too long ago, a viral post about a two-hour waiting time in National University Hospital (NUH) eventually led to NUH issuing an apology about the incident, and admitting that they could’ve done better.

Following the incident, you can probably read countless accounts of people online complaining about other incidents.

However, as any media outlet would be able to attest to, some of them might not be true.

Why? Rashomon Effect. You can watch this video to know more about this phenomenon:

Now, it seems like Wake Up, Singapore might’ve suffered the wrath of the Rashomon Effect in full force with the latest KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) saga.

What Was Mentioned

According to a woman who allegedly related the incident to Wake Up, Singapore—most probably after the NUH saga blew up— she’s a 20-week pregnant mother who tested positive for COVID-19 through an antigen rapid test at end-February.

On 28 February, the day of her “emergency”, she had several COVID-19 symptoms and severe abdominal pains.

She went to her registered hospital in the morning, but was denied treatment as she’s COVID-19 positive. The same thing happened at another private hospital.

She was instructed to go to KKH, as the “Infectious Disease Gynae” was only available there. The pregnant lady reached KKH at around 2pm, where she was allegedly denied treatment as well.

Bleeding Profusely While Waiting At Drop-Off Area

The pregnant mother and her husband apparently pleaded with the hospital, saying that they’ve been denied treatment at other hospitals. She was then instructed to wait at the drop-off area for a doctor to attend to her.

At around 5pm or three hours later, the woman was bleeding profusely but still had to wait another 20 minutes before a nurse attended to her.

She was supposedly asked to urinate in a cup while still bleeding, as the hospital needed a sample.

By the time she bled through her dress, the woman was finally being transferred to a bed. However, she said she knew she was losing her baby by that point in time.

Pushed Baby Out By Herself After Being Told Ultrasound Not Necessary

A doctor saw the woman at 6pm, but then left after saying that a senior doctor was needed because of the bleeding.

Before he left, the woman asked the doctor if she needed to do an ultrasound scan. To her horror, the doctor allegedly told her, “No need ultrasound, the baby is probably dead, this is too much bleeding.”

The woman then understandably started to cry, and while bawling her eyes out, the baby suddenly came out of her. While she was alone in the room.

It took another 10 to 20 minutes of her screaming and crying before someone came into the room, saw what happened, and rushed her out.

The woman said she passed out at one point, and when she woke up, was told that she suffered a miscarriage.

Foetus Dumped Together with Medical Waste

The woman asked the staff if she could have the foetus to give her baby a proper burial. She was told she’ll need a funeral home to contact KKH before passing it along for proper handling.

Her husband made the arrangements right away, but in the end, the foetus had allegedly “been out through medical waste”.

Placenta Wasn’t Fully Expunged

After being discharged with paracetamol, the lady finally tested negative at the end of the week.

She immediately went to her gynaecologist and found out through an ultrasound that the placenta wasn’t fully removed… So it was literally rotting inside her the entire time.

Turns out, the previous doctors at KKH allegedly didn’t do their jobs properly, which led to this lady needing to go through another surgery to clean everything up.

KKH Initially Tried to Look for the Woman & Make a Police Report After That

After the incident went viral, Professor Tan Hak Koon, the chairman of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) at KKH said that there appears “to be discrepancies between the story and the bill information shared online.”

Citing concerns about the well-being of the woman who shared her story, Professor Tan called for her to contact the hospital.

However, this afternoon, they came to a conclusion: It’s fake.

Professor Alex Sia, chief executive officer of KKH, said in a statement this afternoon that “KKH would like to clarify that the online report on the incident at the Urgent Obstetrics and Gynaecology Centre (UOGC) is incorrect.”

He added, “We can definitively say that there is no such scenario. We have since made a police report.

“In addition, based on our investigation, there was no such scenario at the hospital on that said period.

“We did contact the owner of the published bill, as we were concerned that the information may be misappropriated online.”

With that, they’ve made a police report.

And just before we could fully digest this story, Wake Up, Singapore responded.

It’s All a Lie

In a post published shortly after KKH’s statement, Wake Up, Singapore apologised, saying that they were “lied to at every turn, and the documents sent to us were doctored.”

According to their post, the woman had admitted to lying after she was made aware of the police report, and said that she had sent the story to Wake Up, Singapore “in the heat of the moment because I was also agonising over the loss of a previous miscarriage which was handled by KKH.”

Wake Up, Singapore also added that they have no intention to spread falsehoods, and will cooperate with the authorities for investigations.

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Got POFMA-ed Last Month

Just a month ago, Wake Up, Singapore was POFMA-ed after they posted this:

The post had conveyed to members of the public that “Mr Pritam Singh and Mr Muhamad Faisal Bin Abdul Manap was referred for criminal proceedings, even though there was no finding by the Committee that they lied”.

That is untrue as the committee found that Pritam Singh, Mr Faisal and Ms Sylvia Lim had lied in their evidence to the committee.

Mr Faisal, it added, was not referred to the Public Prosecutor for lying; he was referred for refusing to answer questions posed by the committee.

Other than adding a correction notice on the post, they also published a post, announcing that they had been POFMA-ed: