24-year-old Ryan Chong, a Malaysian who came to Singapore to work as an F&B management trainee, was apparently so stressed out that he ended up fainting, before slipping into a medically induced coma inside the ICU.
His Singaporean girlfriend, Vyvyan Lim, took to the crowdfunding page GIVE.asia to raise funds for the hefty hospital fees that he had resultantly incurred, amounting to about $65,000.
8world News reported that Chong has an autoimmune disease that causes his body’s immune system to attack itself when he’s under too much pressure.
Her crowdfunding post
Ryan Chong, 24years old came from Malaysia to work in Singapore as a F&B Management Trainee. I am his girlfriend hereby seeking your kindness and help.
My boyfriend, Ryan started running a fever on 11th Feb 2023 (Sat) night. On Sunday, his fever persisted and was pretty high which he took paracetamol to control his temperature.
However on Tuesday 14th Feb when we were supposed to celebrate Valentine’s day, I decided to send him to the hospital instead of celebration due to the close frequency of feeling very cold and very hot. Doctor examined and dengue test conducted which turns out to be negative. Fever was suppressed after Ibufen was given.
On 17th Feb, Ryan came to my office to look for me for lunch and fainted below my office between 12:05pm to 12:10pm. I did asked him if he is feeling ok before he came to meet me. He was sent to Raffles Hospital where doctor says he was needed to be admitted. Due to high cost, I decided to transfer him immediately to NUH.
He reached NUH at 3pm plus. He had seizures between 4pm to 5pm. Because the frequency of the seizure, the doctor decided to admit him into the ICU. They run a couple of tests on him over the few days but most of them shows negative. However, his brain waves are very disturb and unsettled. They are not of neurologists standard at the moment.
Being a migrant worker in Singapore is really not easy. The fear of not able to complete his PR process, long unhealthy working hours and stress of changing job has probably stress his body out physically and mentally.
There are days he came back home and unable to walk for 2 days due to too long hours of standing and also pain in the urine tract area, due to long hours of holding his bowel movement.
Ryan has a great personality. He is a filial son and a very caring boyfriend. We have great plans for our future. However, this unfortunate thing happened. As he is not local, his hospital bill is an issue now.
We are not married yet, I am not able to use my medisave to help him tie over the bills. The new employment contract has not been signed because of the unscrupulous employment agent who gave empty promises which stressed him out.
I really want to help his mother raise the funds for him so that when he wakes up, he will not fall into another stress which might lead to relapse. His mother has another 3 younger sisters to take care too. I am worried she might not be able to take the stress too. He is under medically induced coma right now to control his seizures.
He is only 24 years old with a bright future ahead and had no other particular illness prior to this. If his brainwaves goes back to normal, doctor will let him wake up slowly. We just need to give him a chance to wake up to a bright future.
As he is still not discharge yet, his hospital bill had not been finalized. The estimated cost for his hospitalisation bill are at SGD65,000, subject to him waking up.
We hope you can come forward to give Ryan a hand, and help him tied over this difficult period.
All funds raised will be managed by Give.asia and pay directly to the hospital for Ryan’s medical bills.