Source: www.mindef.gov.sg
Posted: 17 Apr 2012, 1800 hours (Time is GMT +8
hours)
A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) full-time National
Serviceman, Private (PTE) Lee Rui Feng Dominique Sarron, 21, from
3rd Battalion Singapore Infantry Regiment, experienced breathing
difficulties at about 12.30pm on 17 Apr 2012 while participating in
a platoon exercise at Murai Urban Training Facility at Lim Chu
Kang. PTE Lee subsequently lost consciousness at
12.33pm.
An SAF medic attended to him immediately and evacuated him via a
safety vehicle to Sungei Gedong Medical Centre at 12.46pm where an
SAF doctor attended to him at 12.52pm. PTE Lee was sent via
an ambulance to the National University Hospital (NUH) at 1.03pm
and arrived at NUH at 1.22pm. An SAF doctor continued to
resuscitate him in the ambulance en route to the hospital.
PTE Lee was pronounced dead at 2.05pm at NUH.
The Ministry of Defence and the SAF extend our deepest
condolences to the family of the late PTE Lee. MINDEF is assisting
the family in their time of grief and is investigating the
incident.