Ferrari crash: SCDF made the right call

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A group of top emergency medicine specialists have come out to say that it was the right call to send the victims of the recent Ferrari crash to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).

Although the two public hospitals are farther from the accident scene than the privately run Raffles Hospital, they are better equipped and staffed to handle the victims, the five specialists said.

They said the public hospitals, and not Raffles, are part of the Ministry of Health's 'national emergency and trauma system', which means they are required to have the facilities, equipment and specialists - on hand, round the clock - to handle multiple emergency and trauma victims.

In private hospitals, when the resident doctor receives emergency patients, he has to call the appropriate specialist in - and this may take some time.

The specialists who issued the joint statement on Friday were Associate Professor Mohan Tiru, chairman of the Singapore Residency Advisory Committee of Emergency Medicine; Professor V. Anatharaman, chairman of the Chapter of Emergency Physicians at the Academy of Medicine; Associate Professor Lim Swee Han, president of the Singapore Society of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor Goh Siang Hong, chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and Dr Chiu Ming Terk, chairman of the National Trauma Committee at the Ministry of Health (MOH).