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Lucky Plaza accident: Facilities determine where heart attack victims are taken
Patients taken by ambulance to a hospital best equipped to treat them, like NUH
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A 2011 file photo of a paramedic and a trainee demonstrating how an electrocardiogram is performed on a patient. NUH is one of just two places here which can deal with even the most complex heart problems at any time, day or night. The other is National Heart Centre at the SGH campus.
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It is not always distance that determines which hospital should treat a patient in a critical condition.
It is the facilities which offer that patient the best chance of survival.
