The informant is real

It's time for some history lesson.

In 2003, our Matrix Master (MM) claimed that UK's free health system was very lousy; it had required his wife, who was having a stroke, to wait till the morning before getting a CT scan. He boasted that Singapore's Pay-And-Pay health system was much better:

"We run a (healthcare) system where you have to co-pay ... but you get the attention. There, no attention, just join the queue... In Singapore, within half-an-hour (of having a stroke), you would be in SGH... TTSH... and within one-and-a-half to two hours flat, you'd know what went wrong (because a CT scan would have been done in that time frame)".


I would like to ask Mr. Sim's sibling:

1. Did poor Mr. Sim has a Computed Tomography (CT) scan - it looks like this - done, at all?
   
2. If so, did SGH do it within "2 hours flat" after he was admitted?

I am a very objective Human Battery. So I will reserve my judgement until I read the reply from her. In the mean time, let's refresh our memory of how a commercial airline kicked out its first class and business class passengers for one person:

"Even though doctors initially advised that Mrs Lee stay put in London for three weeks, Mr Lee decided fly her back once her condition stabilised... Within 48 hours, SIA had fitted out SQ321 with medical support of oxygen tanks and other fixtures for a drip. "No other airline would have done this," Mr Lee said, looking visibly touched. On board were also two Intensive Care nurses from Changi General Hospital, two doctors, as well as officials from SIA who made sure all the equipment worked."


So, for his wife, it was a jumbo jet, and with doctors and nurses thrown in too. But for a peasant, the poor man cannot even be put on life support for just one more day!

If Mr. Sim had been on life support, how could it be that his organs would deterioriate if they were not robbed immediately? Thousands of brain-dead people all over the world have survived for years on life support machines!

Oh, by the way, more than 3 years have past. Has that robber, to quote Confucius, paid up the money that he had promised to pay SIA yet? How much did the total bill - removal of seats, setting up of equipments, loss of business (10+ 1st class seats and 30+ business class seats to and from london!!), accompanying doctors and ICU nurses - come up to? Hey, SIA belongs to Singaporeans, supposedly!

Note: For detailed analysis of what happened in 2003, read here (how the journalists were scolded), and here (why he should just go).

Agent Brown: She got out.
Agent Smith: Doesn't matter.
Agent Brown: The informant is real.