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National Parks Commission worker critical after fall from tractor

Feb 18, 2012 News

Raymond Khan Wong, a longstanding employee of the National Parks Commission was clinging to life in the Georgetown Public Hospital last night after tumbling from a moving tractor trailer.
Wong’s relatives and coworkers are upset that the management of the National Parks’ Commission failed to notify them of the seriousness of his condition.
The injured man’s son, Raymond Khem Wong said that his father was traveling in the trailer at around 15: 30 hrs on Vlissengen Road when the vehicle swerved into a pothole.
Wong was hurled off the vehicle and struck his head on the roadway.
The son stated that the General Manager informed him around 17:30 hrs that his father was involved in a vehicular accident.
Khem stated that the General Manager assured him that his father was being taken care of and there was no need for him to be admitted. However, when Khem arrived at the hospital around 18:15 hrs, he found his father unconscious and bleeding through his mouth and nose in the Accident and Emergency Unit.
“I was told by people at the hospital that the doctors and porters calling asking who is the man’s relatives or coworkers, but no one was there.
“My father worked there for years. He spent 33 years as the Supervisor for Geological Park and is just lately they transfer he to the Botanical Gardens and this is how they treat him,” Khem said.

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