Kneel all you want!

Dear fellow Human batteries,

This is how your organs will be harvested at the Singapore General Hospital, amid your aged mother leading all your family members to kneel and plead and beg the hospital not to cut you up, and with the hospital confronting them with more than 20 police officers and staffs!!!


2007-02-08
阻医院移植亲人器官 家属与警察发生冲突
刘丽仪　邓莉蓉

　　中央医院准备为一名中风脑死的病人进行器官移植手术时，家属以病人还有心跳以及“所祈问的神明说病人即将清醒”为理由，一再要求院方将手术延迟。院方不答应家属要求，结果家属于昨天凌晨在医院与到场维持秩序的警察发生肢体冲突。

　　起重机操作员沈智华（45岁）上星期四凌晨约4时在工作时跌倒，送院急救后医生诊断他因脑血管阻塞中风，上身轻微麻痹，但意识仍清醒。

　　沈智华的大哥沈智荣（49岁）受访时告诉本报，弟弟清醒后，一直不能相信自己会中风，又因为在一次要求下床小解被护士拒绝，加上双手又被绑的情况下，情绪因而激动。

(and therefore become more susceptible to another stroke! But, erm, that's funny -- where is the immediate free airlift by SIA helicopter to the best hospital for stroke treatment, which, I believe, is Tan Tock Seng Hospital? And where are the MRI or CAT scan that every singapore stroke victim will receive within 24 hours, according to someone?)

沈母率家属跪求
院方挪后移植器官

　　沈智华上星期六陷入昏迷状态，医生在星期一傍晚6时20分宣告他已脑死。

(The first stroke was so mild, why did he become brain dead so fast, 2 days later? )

　　院方随即根据人体器官移植法令，要求进行器官移植。不过，家属觉得沈智华仍有心跳，因为他们认为对沈智华说话时，沈智华还会流泪，并轻轻握住大哥的手，于是要求院方多通融两天，让他们转而前往祈求神明的保佑。

　　在沈智华69岁的母亲和10多名家属集体下跪苦苦哀求后，院方同意延至前晚（星期二）10时才进行器官移植。

　　后来，沈智华家属再请示神明，而被“告知”沈智华会在昨晚8时醒来，家属因此希望院方再通融到晚上8时。

家属警员对峙3小时

　　沈智荣说，院方基于弟弟的器官开始衰竭，而且移植手术都安排妥当，在前晚9时30分通知他和表哥两人，希望他们能劝服亲人，好让院方能及时进行移植手术。

　　他说，正当他们试图游说时，院方及警方分别要求所有家属到病房外和医生讨论。而他们一离开病房，立刻有五六名工作人员把沈智华从另一扇门推去手术室，而想冲上前抢人的家属则被挡在门前的警员阻拦，家属激动之下和警方发生了肢体冲突，除了推撞哭喊之外，沈智华的妹妹沈秋兰还咬伤一名警员的手臂。

　　32岁的沈秋兰说，院方这样的做法“形同抢劫”，而当时现场共有20多名警察和医院职员。

　　沈秋兰叙述，她在被警员挡在门外时，气愤不已地咬了警察后被反手铐住，并被关在一个房间内约30分钟。

　　家属跟警员对峙了近3小时，最后在院方职员和护士的安抚下，心情才慢慢平复下来，在昨天凌晨4时办理了手续，将遗体领出。沈智华捐出4个器官，包括两个肾脏和一对眼角膜。

　　警方发言人在接受本报查询时说，警方仍在调查这起事件。


调查 your lan cheow! What more is there to investigate? The poor man's organs have already been removed against his family's wish! Let this human battery give you his investigation report: the time between his very first mild stroke and his brain death is just 2 days. This brings into question what medication and/or treatment the hospital did or did not administer to its patient in those crucial two days.

Perhaps, the hospital has intentionally not seek to aggressively treat this potential organ "donor", so that they have a higher chance of transplanting his organs? Note that this is not an unfounded wild accusation at all, given the context - SGH's extreme, unusual enthusiasm to remove his organs: the 20 police officers and staffs, the tricks planned to divert the family away, etc. There are valid grounds to make such allegations.

At worst, I think we have witnessed our first case of abuse of the Human Organs Transplant Act (HOTA). At best (which is also terrible), we have just seen the extent our hospitals and police force will go, to cut us up against our families' wishes, and despite our families pleading and begging and kneeling!

On this Matrix Island, we are literally Human Batteries. Alive, we are expected to serve our Matrix Master till our last breath . But even in death, we are still expected to serve them, and if it takes 20 police officers and staff to get us to serve them our organs, they will do it!

Right after blogging this, the Human Battery is going to get the application form to opt out of HOTA. Donating our kidneys and corneas in the event of our unfortunate brain death, is one thing. The authority forcing its way through, despite our aged parents crying and begging and kneeling, is another totally different thing.

Oh, by the way, HOTA applies only to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents. If you are a foreigner, there is no need for your aged parents to kneel. Nope, your parents will be politely asked: "Excuse me Sir, would you like to donate...". And if your parents bellowed: "How dare you ask? No!", the staff will say "sorry", and then meekly retreat and leave them they to grieve quietly. They won't have to face 20 police officers and staffs!

Lucky foreigners!

What's that saying again? Oh, "Jobs for foreigners, NS for Singaporeans"!

No Matrix quote available. The Machines in the movie treated their human batteries more sensitively than the Matrix Master of this Matrix Island