{"id":78169,"date":"2026-08-21T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78169"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:27:47","slug":"woman-taken-to-hospital-after-allegedly-falling-from-holland-drive-hdb-block-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=78169","title":{"rendered":"Woman taken to hospital after allegedly falling from Holland Drive HDB block, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>A 51-year-old woman was taken to hospital after allegedly falling from a height at an HDB block on Wednesday (Aug 19) morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Responding to queries from AsiaOne, the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received a call for assistance at Block 43 Holland Drive at 7.45am.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The woman was conveyed unconscious to National University Hospital and apprehended under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Speaking to Shin Min Daily News, a witness at the scene, Zhang Jingbin (transliteration), said he heard that the woman would sometimes shout at her neighbour without reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zhang believed that the woman had fallen from the a fourth-floor unit as the window was open at the time of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Footage supplied by Zhang showed how the rescue was carried out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>Several SCDF personnel can be seen lifting the woman, who was lying on a stretcher, through the window of a second-floor unit, before taking her to hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><span>The police also cordoned off the surrounding area, the Chinese daily reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"help\" style=\"background-color:#fff4de;padding:8px 10px\">\n<h3>SINGAPORE HELPLINES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ef6f3ad094c9592021a80b9b0ca997a76\">Samaritans of Singapore: 1767 (24 hours) \/ 9151-1767 (WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e4b4a8d63a811c5d85b5424847bde4b9e\">Singapore Association for Mental Health: 1800-283-7019<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efb67fd6b096761c06bf473c0eb5a7c73\">Care Corner Counselling Centre (Mandarin): 1800-353-5800<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"effe7ceae2a13799d96d863ddd6161981\">National mindline: 1771 (24 hours) \/ 6669-1771 (WhatsApp)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eafb9578ce56a8645fae095ac1f17ffc3\">Silver Ribbon: 6386-1928<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e8d224996a5d3016ccaf46802e9331b97\">We Care Community Services: 3165-8017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[[nid:731251]]<\/p>\n<p>xingying.koh@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/woman-falls-hdb-block-holland-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old woman was taken to hospital after allegedly falling from a height at an HDB block on Wednesday (Aug 19) morning. Responding to queries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}