 |  | Goh Chok Tong (left) urged Singaporeans to view hygiene as part of gracious behaviour. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE |
He urged Singaporeans to view hygiene as part of gracious behaviour, during a community event to welcome new residents of his Marine Parade GRC.
'If you have poor hygiene in public places, littering, food all over the place, rats running around the market, that's very ungracious behaviour,' he said.
Mr Goh also extended his condolences to the families of the two women who died after eating rojak from a stall in the Geylang Serai temporary market, in what is possibly Singapore's worst case of mass food poisoning. The market is located in Marine Parade GRC.
Some 150 people also fell ill and four are still in hospital. Mr Goh said he hoped they would recover quickly.
He said the incident suggested something was amiss but stressed that Members of Parliament for the area were quick to respond and were not absent, as some rumours had it.
Dr Ong Seh Hong, the MP in charge of the Kampong Ubi-Kembangan ward where the temporary market stands, was at the site 'very early on' after news of the food poisoning broke, Mr Goh said.
'He also visited the family of the deceased, who happened to be a constituent in the GRC,' he said, referring to Madam Aminah Samijo who died on Monday.
'But it's off the news, because you don't expect people to follow you when you pay your respects to the family.'
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