Test would not have shown up cadet’s condition: MINDEF
TODAY’s reporting on the Ministry of Defence’s (MINDEF) statement to the Coroner’s inquiry was misleading and inaccurate (“NS cadet’s death: MINDEF disputes findings of Coroner’s Inquiry”; March 8).
TODAY’s reporting on the Ministry of Defence’s (MINDEF) statement to the Coroner’s inquiry was misleading and inaccurate (“NS cadet’s death: MINDEF disputes findings of Coroner’s Inquiry”; March 8).
There was no dispute on the Coroner’s findings.
He stated in his report that he had been informed “that echocardiography may be able to detect some types of cardiomyopathy”.
To clarify this point, MINDEF consulted the Chairman of the Singapore Armed Forces Cardiology Specialist Advisory Board and Deputy Medical Director of the National Heart Centre Singapore, Associate Professor Terrance Chua, on this specific case.
His assessment was that the type of cardiomyopathy that resulted in 3rd Sergeant Ee Chun Sheng’s death could not have been detected by echocardiography, as the autopsy findings showed that the deceased’s heart was not enlarged and had no gross cardiac findings.