Yesterday, State Coroner Kamala urged PMD users to get rid of such non-compliant devices.
The fire broke out in Mr Goh s Bukit Batok flat, and it was caused by battery packs that overheated as they were being charged.
Mr Goh was unconscious when he was pulled out of his flat and died two days later.
Investigation officer Muhammad Eszham Sabtu earlier told the court that Mr Goh, who suffered burns, died of multiple organ failure following a heart attack. He had coronary artery disease.
The officer told State Coroner Kamala that three PMDs were found in the living room but only one was being charged at the time.
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SINGAPORE: Twelve employers were given awards for creating mentally friendly and healthy working environments by mental health non-profit organisation, Silver Ribbon (Singapore), on Tuesday (May 4).
The employers are Bizlink Centre Singapore Ltd, FedEx Express, Jardines MINDSET, Jebsen & Jessen Group, Johnson & Johnson Singapore, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Pocari Sweat Singapore, Project X, PSA Corporation Limited, Rio Tinto, Singapore Civil Defence Force and Twitter Asia Pacific.
The Ministry of Health has asked all hospitals to defer non-urgent surgeries and admissions for now. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): As the number of Covid-19 community cases here rises and the cluster at Tan Tock Seng Hospital grows, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has asked all hospitals to defer non-urgent operations and admissions for now, in order to conserve resources across the healthcare sector.
Non-urgent specialist outpatient clinic appointments will also be postponed.
The TTSH cluster formed last week, after a nurse at the hospital s ward 9D was confirmed to have Covid-19. Since then, another 34 people have been added to the cluster, and one of them, an 88-year-old patient who was at ward 9D, has died.
SINGAPORE - As Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) goes into battle mode to contain a cluster that emerged from one of its wards last week, other public and private hospitals here are helping to take on the extra load diverted from TTSH.
In a release on Monday (May 3), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said it has worked with the public and private hospitals here to make sure that patients requiring care will continue to be attended to. The healthcare community has also worked together to reserve more beds to manage any potential increase in Covid-19 cases, MOH added.
To conserve resources across the healthcare sector, MOH has asked all hospitals to defer non-urgent surgical operations and admissions as well as non-urgent SOC (specialist outpatient clinic) appointments until further notice.
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Spare hospital beds outside Tan Tock Seng Hospital s Accident and Emergency (A&E) department on Apr 30, 2021. (Photo: Calvin Oh)
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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has asked all hospitals to defer non-urgent surgeries and admissions to conserve resources in the healthcare sector amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in the community and at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). MOH is working closely with all public and private hospitals to ensure that patients requiring care will continue to be attended to. The healthcare community has also worked together to reserve more beds to manage any potential increase in COVID-19 cases, said MOH on Monday (May 3).