Khoo Teck Puat Hospital issued an apology for lapses that resulted in misdiagnoses of breast cancer patients that resulted in half of them receiving unnecessary treatment.
They will also be compensating the victims.
Five of their employees, including their management and staff, were identified by the hospital for no adequately performing their duties and responsibilities, leading to the lapses; their punishments include termination, fines and stern warnings.
Retraining, re-education and counselling will also be conducted.
Investigations were concluded on 3 May 2021, and the National Healthcare Group had set up of an independent review committee to carry out the misdiagnoses evaluation.
NHG also added that now that the hospital has reached out to all the patients who were affected, they will be looking into the “appropriate compensation for each individual patient”, although it will take some time to complete.
KTPH previously revealed (in December last year) that about 180 of their breast cancer patients may have been incorrectly diagnosed over 8 years.
They were misdiagnosed with a type of malfunctioning gene, and that it was caused by human-error.
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