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A 63-YEAR-OLD woman could not be revived after she was found sitting motionless in the steam room of a country club for longer than usual on Tuesday, The Straits Times reported.
Mrs Soo Lee, a long-time member of the Singapore Island Country Club, was pronounced dead at Tan Tock Seng Hospital despite all efforts to revive her.
The chief executive officer of the Singapore Aircargo Agents Association (SAAA) had a routine:
She would drop by the club to exercise at the gym before going to the office at 8.30 am.
That day, she turned up with her husband, but went to the steam room alone. A member in the steam room alerted a club employee on noticing that Mrs Lee had not moved in a while.
A cleaner and some women members brought her out of the room and summoned the swim coach and gym instructor, both of whom are trained in cardio- pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). They used a defibrillator but failed to restart her heart.
They also called for an ambulance. An SICC spokesman said:
"We attended to her immediately as soon as we found out. We did our best to revive her."
Paramedics continued trying to revive her as the ambulance sped to the hospital.
The police have classified the case as one of unnatural death. Cardiologist Tan Huay Cheem of the National University Hospital said the commonest cause of sudden death is heart attack.
"Extreme temperatures,
more commonly cold weather, are known to precipitate heart attacks," he said.
Mrs Lee headed SAAA for about a decade, but had been in the industry for more than 20 years, having previously worked for the Dutch airline KLM.
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