Changi General Hospital (CGH) has clarified that it did not advocate pulling the plug on one of its patients who was in coma.

A recent feel-good story by Yahoo Singapore reported that a 28-year-old man went into coma following a sudden cardiac arrest.

He apparently regained consciousness after Liverpool football club sent him an autographed get-well-soon card at the behest of the man's younger brother.

And this was after the coma patient was transferred from CGH to Singapore General Hospital.

The Yahoo article reported:

After being advised to pull the plug, the family sought a second opinion at SGH and eventually decided to transfer Firdaus there.

This shocking detail was subsequently picked up and reported on by Mothership.sg.

Following the dissemination of this detail online, a CGH spokesperson has reached out to us with the following statement:

We refer to your article dated 22 April 2016, “Dear parents, if I fall into a coma, never send me to Changi General Hospital. Thanks.”

We are glad to read from your report that the patient has been making progress in his recovery and that his favourite football club has written in to encourage the patient.

However we are very concerned with the angle of your headline which suggested that CGH has mismanaged the care of Mr Mohd Firdaus Bin Osman. This is misleading and inaccurate.

We would like to clarify that our medical team had not advocated to the family to “pull the plug”. Our doctor’s recommendation to the family was to remove the breathing tube as the patient was assessed to be able to breathe on his own. This is a standard of care for any patient on the ventilator. This information was also conveyed to the family.

The spokesperson also told Mothership.sg that they have reached out to Yahoo News to clarify.

However, a check on the Yahoo News article (April 25, 10am) shows that it has yet to include CGH's clarifications.

Full details with regards to what happened with the patient shall remain vague, due to patient confidentiality.

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