SINGAPORE : A national serviceman has collapsed and died after
remedial fitness training at Maju Camp.
The Defence Ministry says 35-year-old Lance Corporal Ho Wah Yeng
was immediately evacuated to the National University Hospital when
he collapsed after 11am on Sunday.
He died about an hour later.
Mindef and the SAF extended their condolences to Ho's family.
Mindef is investigating the incident.
Ho is the fourth serviceman to have collapsed and died this year;
two had died in June, and another full time serviceman collapsed
during a street soccer game in September.
Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean told Parliament in July that there
were 19 such cases of sudden cardiac death in the armed forces in
the last decade, an incidence rate lower than the national figures
of such deaths.
He assured that immediate care was available in such emergencies,
but such deaths were hard to prevent. - CNA /ct