Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Hit and Run

not me, someone else.
i suppose i was the 1st one there, and the victim was loaded onto my car and i was left to take him where ever i wanted.
first i sent him to a medical centre nearest. a private 'hospital', calling themselves a trauma centre. some nurses came out, the younger looking to the older for a response. "i'll need to call a surgeon in for this, better you send him to UH". You have an ambulance park here, can you send him with the ambulance ? " no, it's not working."

not wanting to waste anymore time i drove off. i stopped by a police station hoping to get some help, like a police assort or something. not much help either. was told the same thing, send him to UH.
drove there hoping he would not die in my car. he was wheezing and moaning as i was driving as fast as i could.
there was a traffic light right in front of the hospital, blocking any quick access to it. can you believe that! what good planning.
once there, the service was fast, they quickly loaded him onto a streacher bed and wheel him in for treatment.
i later made a police report. it was quick and the policeman there didn't give me a hard time.

all in all, if anyone wants to stop to pick up any road accident victims, please send them straight to UH (they're good), or any major government hospital. unless you're willing to pay, private ones will just give you lots of bull.


UH ER team at work

6 Old Comments:

lemme guess : the victim is an indian ? do u think diff story if the skin- color is diff ?

By Blogger rjhkj, at 1:16 pm  

Chief, You are selfless. Many people will not transport accident victims 'cos
1) if they die, bad chi
2) if they bleed, no one is going to pay for the upholstery change

God bless you.
We can't blame the private hospitals 'cos every piece of plasters and bandages need money. And they operate on money, not compassion. Sad fact of life, huh?

By Blogger 5xmom.com, at 2:15 pm  

leeyn - he's indon, but i think the colour private hospitals are looking for is green.

5xmom - i was worried he'll die on me but he did not. but i had to do some cleaning.

By Blogger Chief, at 5:34 pm  

Welldone dude.

By Blogger Unknown, at 4:45 pm  

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By Blogger Chief, at 10:52 am  

Kancil - thanks, i'm sure many would have done the same

By Blogger Chief, at 10:52 am