A 41-year-old woman, Suziyana Hamid, suffered cuts on her body after a glass door inside her hotel’s toilet shattered on her while she was showering, and she was then sent to the hospital.
The incident happened on 16 June at about 4.30am, at the Siloso Beach Resort.
Speaking to Mothership, Hamid was celebrating her daughter’s 12’th birthday earlier that day, and was on her way to bed after finishing her shower when the door was stuck.
She then realised that the glass shower door was not secured to the hinge at the bottom, before calling out to her husband for help.
She was scared that the door might fall on her so she used her left hand to support the structure, but the whole door then shattered onto her just seconds later.
Hamid then used her left hand to cover her face with her right hand still holding onto the handle of the door.
She added that everything happened so quickly that by the time her husband opened the main toilet door, the shower door had already shattered to the ground.
Hamid had glass shards stuck onto her body, scalp and arms as she was not wearing clothes, and was bleeding a lot from the cuts.
She then told her husband to get help from her sister and brother-in-law who were nearby, just a few door down from their room.
He then used a floor mat to cover the glass shards so that she could leave the toilet, before calling 995 for help, where she was told not to remove the glass shards herself.
A staff member of the resort then brought a roll of bandages and surgical tape, but Hamid highlighted that they didn’t bring a first aid box.
A manager then told the couple that he would contact them at about 8am.
Hamid spent 20 minutes getting dressed before being wheeled out on a stretcher after the arrival of the ambulance and sent to the hospital where doctors and nurses spent one hour removing the glass shards on her with tweezers at 6am.
She was then given 5 days of medical leave.
Hamid added that no staff from the resort followed up with them after the incident, and claimed that the resort had limited people working overnight at the time the incident happened.
The SCDF also confirmed that they received a call for help at Siloso Beach Resort on 16 June at about 4.30am.
Images source: Suziyana Hamid via Mothership