Singapore Dementia Medical Cost Part 1

What is dementia?

According to http://www.singhealth.com.sg/PatientCare/ConditionsAndTreatments/Pages/Dementia.aspx

Dementia is the medical term used to describe a group of symptoms consisting of memory loss, impaired judgement, disorientation and behavioural changes, which are of sufficient severity to cause loss of function. 

In May 2012, my father had a sudden behaviour changes and sudden low blood pressure due to over dosage of medicine as he had forgotten that he had taken the medicine and retake again. His Systolic measurement is 80mmHg. Immediately we send him to hospital A&E for emergency treatment.

The hospital bill is $99 after government grant.

Apart from the normal laboratory check, the doctor had also conducted the CT scan on brain and discover there were 3 minor old stroke in the brain. The doctor unable to reveal when is the minor stroke occur. The CT scanning is not part of the A&E package and needed to pay separately.

The CT scan cost $224.05




After the confirmation of the causes, my father was refer to see 2 different specialist doctor, 1 is neural for the brain and one is for stroke. The duty doctor had prescribe the blood thinning medicine to my father for prevention of stroke again.

So the total cost is $323.05.

Get a free $100 Mcdonalds Voucher Now - Not True

Recently saw a friend in my facebook share a link

Get a free $100 Mcdonalds Voucher Now (426 Left)

Once click a link it will display the following page

However Mcdonald Official facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mcdsg has officially announce that they do not have such promotion.

Please do not believe any news or promotion from unofficial website.

Echocardiogram Report

What type of data was capture in the Echocardiogram report. Basically it check your heart size and function, heart pressure, wall motion, valve structure and other medical term that only medical professional understand. Below is my Echocardiogram Report.

New POSB ATM Card unable to Deposit Cash in ATM Machine

The edge of my old POST ATM card was chipped off and decided to change a new one. This ATM card has been followed me for more than 10 years and it is still functioning well



The changing process in the POSB branch was smooth and fast. The document needed is the NRIC.

I am able to use the card immediately eg withdrawal of cash, top-up ezlink card etc.
However today I intended to deposit cash with the card, after keying my pin number and selected the account number, the ATM machine just hanged there for 2 to 3 mins and later a message appear in the screen, transaction cancelled. Have tried 3 times and result is the same. Then there is a lady using the passbook to deposit cash and the machine able to function well.

Suspect the card problem and proceed to the counter staff to feedback my problem. The counter staff call their IT department and confirm that there is no error in the ATM side and she has also physically see the machine hanged there after I selected the account. She change another new ATM card for me and I try, again it hanged there.

Later she used her own ATM card and the system also hanged there.

It is quite confirmed that there is a technical fault in the ATM machine card reader that link to the backend system. Will try to use other ATM deposit machine to confirm that is no the new card  that causes the problem.

Infected with H1N1 and insurance claim

Last month I started with high fever, body temperature above 38.3 deg, sore throat and cough. The doctor suspect is H1N1 disease and do a throat swab. The sample was send to the laboratory to test and on the next day, it was confirmed infected with H1N1. Doctor advise to rest well and need to see her immediately if the condition get worse.

After 1 week of rest, I had recovered from H1N1 and luckily I had bough a personal accident insurance (PASTAR)  from tenet that allow me to claim for my medical bill.