Singapore Democrats, 19 Jul 2012
An elderly couple, let's call them the Lims, had to walk all the way home because they were left without money after they paid the doctor's fees at the polyclinic in Toa Payoh.
Mdm Lim was bent over from the waist and could hardly walk. But she had to prop up her octogenarian husband who was even more frail and lead him because he is blind.
But why did they not take a taxi? Mdm Lim said that after they paid their polyclinic fees, they didn't have enough money. And so they walked.
"I asked them if we could use our CPF, the staff said no,” Mdm Lim said, speaking in Teochew. "They said we had to pay cash.” The couple have no children. Full story
