Mindef says Capt (Dr) Ooi did not respond to offer, and went AWOL
| By Jermyn Chow | ||
 |  | Capt (Dr) Ooi died earlier this month. In a note he left behind, he expressed unhappiness over his work. -- PHOTO: FACEBOOK |
Its spokesman, Colonel Darius Lim, said Capt Ooi's superiors were aware of his unhappiness over his work, and had offered him a different appointment. But he never got back to his boss about whether he would take the option.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force medical officer, 27, was found dead underneath Melbourne's Westgate Bridge on March 3. In a note he left behind, he said, among other things, that he was unhappy at work. He lamented that he spent more time doing administrative work such as writing articles for the air force in-house magazine, than treating patients.
Capt (Dr) Ooi, a Singapore Armed Forces scholar, had wanted out of the SAF.
Col Lim said in a letter to The Straits Times Forum Page that on Oct 3 last year, Capt (Dr) Ooi was offered 'the option of posting to an appointment which he would be interested in'. He did not elaborate on what the appointment was.
Capt (Dr) Ooi was to get back to his superiors on the matter in two weeks time.
'However, he did not do so,' Col Lim added.
Instead, on Oct 15, when the two weeks would have been up, he was declared as having gone AWOL or absent without official leave.
It is believed that he left the country on Oct 13, leaving his family and his employer in the dark as to his whereabouts.
The note he left behind for family and friends had been circulating widely on the Internet, setting off much chatter in blogs and forums about the SAF's scholarship regime and its inflexibility.
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