MediaCorp had reported on Sunday about a British newspaper article on SIA's decision last month to fly 14 hours to Heathrow Airport with a passenger who had suffered a heart attack.
The Daily Mail had reported that 51-year-old BBC radio presenter Max Pearson was rushed to hospital upon touchdown but now has long-term heart damage.
While SIA has declined comment on individual cases, SIA spokesman Nicholas Ionides said yesterday its aircraft are equipped with medical kits and automated external defibrillators, and its crew is trained in first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Where necessary, medical support will be arranged on the ground to be ready upon touchdown, he added.
However, a cardiologist MediaCorp spoke to said that a person having a heart attack usually "can't even wait for that one hour", and needs to be hospitalised "as soon as possible".
"From the moment of a heart attack, patients can collapse straight or have chest pains and collapse the next moment ... You can't predict who's going to develop complications," said Associate Professor Tan Huay Cheem, director of the National University Heart Centre, Singapore.
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