{"id":98408,"date":"2026-11-09T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98408"},"modified":"2026-11-09T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:29:02","slug":"why-this-70-year-old-alexandra-hospital-dialysis-nurse-wont-retire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98408","title":{"rendered":"Why this 70-year-old Alexandra Hospital dialysis nurse won&#8217;t retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">During her first year in the course, Mi Mi began work at the state hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThis was an era when everybody was scared to go to hospital. Patients were afraid that if they went in, they would never come out. Many elderly patients from nearby villages were distressed, depressed and worried about finances,\u201d Mi Mi told CNA Women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Mi Mi held their hands, patiently explained medical treatments to them and reassured them. Many became attached to the young woman, requesting for her whenever they needed a blood test or intravenous infusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">And Mi Mi, in turn, grew attached to her patients. So much so that when universities reopened, she decided to give up chemistry for nursing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"EN-GB\">LEARNING UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In her last year of nursing school, Mi Mi survived a hospital fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The hospital relied on a fuel-powered generator for electricity, and a hospital staff member had to top up the petrol. But he refuelled it by candlelight rather than using a torch, and the generator\u2019s fuel tank exploded into flames, Mi Mi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">She recalled the chaos that ensued \u2013 patients fleeing from their second-storey ward with intravenous drips still attached to their arms, and blood dripping everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Patients who just undergone operations could not flee on their own. So, with shaky knees, Mi Mi and her colleagues carried them down the stairs on stretchers, making several trips.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/women\/daw-mi-mi-dialysis-nurse-alexandra-hospital-591091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During her first year in the course, Mi Mi began work at the state hospital. \u201cThis was an era when everybody was scared to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98409,"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-98408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98408","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=98408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}