THE Health Ministry has ordered the Nightingale Nursing Home to stop accepting new patients after secretly-filmed video footage showed its staff mistreating a woman resident.
The clip - recorded by a resident's relative using a hidden camera - was broadcast by MediaCorp on its television news bulletins on Thursday.
It immediately went viral online, circulated on various forums, and drew angry comments from viewers outraged by what they saw.
The clip first shows the woman seated unclothed on a chair, in full view of everyone in the room. Two women staff members are then shown flinging her onto a bed. And when she groans, one of them slaps her.
Last night's TV news said the clip was handed over to MediaCorp in March this year and the government broadcaster then alerted the Ministry of Health.
But neither the contents of the footage nor the ministry's subsequent checks and action were revealed until Thursday.
The clip - recorded by a resident's relative using a hidden camera - was broadcast by MediaCorp on its television news bulletins on Thursday.
It immediately went viral online, circulated on various forums, and drew angry comments from viewers outraged by what they saw.
Last night's TV news said the clip was handed over to MediaCorp in March this year and the government broadcaster then alerted the Ministry of Health.
But neither the contents of the footage nor the ministry's subsequent checks and action were revealed until Thursday.
