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SINGAPORE – A dream holiday to Europe that a family had planned for six months turned out to be a nightmare which they are grateful to have survived.
Three days after the Ng-Chans returned on March 21, having cancelled two stops because of the looming pandemic, three family members fell ill with Covid-19.
Mrs Celine Ng-Chan, a 31-year-old tuition teacher who was 10 weeks pregnant, found out she had Covid-19 after going to a doctor with a sore throat. That night, her two-year-old daughter, Aldrina, came down with a fever as well.
In addition, Mrs Ng-Chan learnt later that her mother, Madam Choy Wai Chee, 58, had collapsed earlier that same day because of Covid-19 as well.
Only Mrs Ng-Chan’s husband, 32, and her father, 62, escaped infection.
She was hospitalised for four months at the National University Hospital (NUH), spending 29 days on a life support machine that took over the function of her heart and kidneys.
That was the longest any Covid-19 patient had been on the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in Singapore. Madam Choy was also NUH’s longest-staying Covid patient, said an NUH spokesman.
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