Following the reply of Dr Simmar Gill under the caption of ‘Serious Legal Ramifications’, we are not convinced at all by his flimsy arguments devoid of any sense and we for sure are still under shock and indignation. We cannot remain amorphous to the suffering-cum-humiliation of the bereaved family and we share their feelings of anger and revolt. 

 

The clinic has been heartless and has refused to provide any help to the desperate imploring husband and daughter of the deceased to give at least a shelter to the diseased in her last hour on earth but unfortunately the clinic has closed its doors. No civilized society can accept such treatment. It is beyond our comprehension: how can a deceased be deprived of the sense of dignity and humanity? This is revolting in our society: whither goes Hippocratic oath? 

 

The most pathetic in this issue is: “Ma tante était une patiente de cette clinique?” -  the cry from the heart of Dr Patrick How. The clinic has infringed the trust heaped upon it by the family Ng after such a long treatment there. They could have taken the patient to Candos Hospital which is at a stone's throw from their residence. To leave a deceased in the parking lot for two lingering hours exists only in an inhuman, nay primitive and barbaric society. We ask our fellow countrymen and women to think twice before sending their kith and kin to a private clinic. We won’t delve in the kilometric exaggerated bills and other abuses of private clinics which are a common secret to many. Private clinics have in general become money spinners, more inclined to look at your purse than your health. Is it no surprise that some are on the verge of closing down due to skeletal occupancy in spite of promotions.

 

Dr Gill talks of foul play and law of the country. But he seems to ignore that the patient has been on her way to the clinic. One thing for sure: Dr Gill must have mistaken the country he is talking of. In other countries he would have been taken to task. Since she was the patient under the treatment of Dr Bruno Lai and a regular patient of the said clinic they still owed her a duty of care at the time of death and after.