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Shin Min Daily reported that the incident happened at 10:30pm on 22 July on a SMRT train at the Circle Line. The Australian tourist, known only as Peter, was travelling from Botanic Gardens station to Dhoby Ghaut station.
1. During the journey, a female passenger started to feel unwell and threw up, causing neighbouring passengers to quickly step away.
2. “Other than me, who offered the girl a handkerchief, there was a couple who gave her some tissue paper. The passengers who were seated further away just used handkerchiefs or tissues to cover their noses,” he said to Shin Min Daily.
3. After a while, an SMRT staff came over and requested through his walkie talkie for a cleaner to be sent over, as the vomit was stinking up the train. The person assured passengers that a cleaner would board the train at the next station and alighted where the train was then ― at Caldecott station ― without offering any assistance. The cleaner did not turn up at the next station.
4. A female passenger, who is said to be a nurse, then came over and offered the sick girl a plastic bag. The nurse stayed with the girl until she felt better, after which the nurse alighted at Marymount station. Moved by the nurse’s actions, Peter spoke to her and found out that she is a Malaysian who works at Alexandra Hospital, reported the Chinese daily.
When contacted, a spokesperson from SMRT said that based on their preliminary investigations, the staff who called for the cleaner had to alight at Caldecott station. “The staff did what he could. He noticed that the passenger was feeling unwell and immediately notified station control to send a cleaner over,” said the spokesperson to Shin Min Daily.
The spokesperson added that the cleaner boarded the train at Lorong Chuan station to clean up the vomit.
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