First week of news

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An 11-month-old baby, Adrian, drowned while his mum slept after clubbing. He was found half-submerged, pale and motionless by his father, Mr Ong. He came back looking out for job while Adrian’s maternal grandmother was also out, picking a gift for her grandson’s first birthday. Ms Tan Siew Kim, 20, and Mr Ong rushed the toddler to Raffles Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about one and a half hours later. Ms Tan came home at 5am or 6am on May 7 after a night out with her friends at a club, said Mr Ong. Before he left at about 10 am that day, he placed the baby beside Ms Tan, tapped her and reminded her to feed Adrian. When he got home at about 5pm, he could not find Adrian and soon called out for him, he became hysterical when he found him in the p ail of water pale and motionless. Just a month before, he said, his son had crawled to the toilet and stood up, holding on to the pail for support.

My opinions:

This is a very sad article as losing a loved one is the hardest thing to experience. In this article, there was no one to be blame as no one was supervising Adrian. However, children like Adrian are supposed to be supervised as such incident like this may happen. Being a mother at the age of 20 is a great responsibility. Having to watch them 24 hours a day even you are ill. Therefore, in this case, Ms Tan is not responsible enough to take care of her son and she expects her mother and husband to look after him while she club whole day and night. Mr Ong and the grandmother should have planned a schedule on who is going to supervise Adrian. It is more organized this way as it is ensured that Adrian has a supervisor while he play but also the supervisor should ensure that nothing bad will happen to the child. After this incident, we know that even the home posed a danger to young children who were left unattended and unsupervised. “Any water in the toilet can be a potential hazard and in this case, it proved fatal, claiming a life of a child who was just learning to stand up and walk on his own and about to turn one year old,” the coroner said. I agree on what the coroner said there is many ways how a child can die without any supervision of an adult.

2)

A 15-year-old Singaporean student studying in India has become the island’s 8 case of influenza a (H1N1). He is also the first to be picked up by thermal scanners installed at change airport. The boy had been in Orlando and Atlanta in the United States on a school trip from may 17 to last Sunday. The airport scanners detected his fever when he arrived at Singapore on Monday from Atlanta via Mumbai. He had been feverish during the flight and was seated at 39K on Singapore Airlines flight SQ421 and he was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and warded to KK Women’s and Children Hospital. He was taken there early yesterday morning. Laboratory results at 2.40pm on the same day confirmed he was infected By H1N1.

My opinions:

The case of H1N1 flu in Singapore is getting higher. After a 15-year-old student, become the eight case of H1N1. I think the Ministry Of Health will be taking some precaution in the airports and places the infected person contacted. It is important to take this precaution seriously, as it can save your life. In school, we are required to bring a personal thermometer to check on our temperature. It can be sometimes irritating as lessons are interrupted but we know that it is for our own good. It is good that the MOH acted quickly after the scanners detected the boy’s fever in the airport in Singapore. Putting him in the isolation war, away from the public is a good idea as the virus can spread very quickly.