After deaths at Wonderfruit, attendees complain festival ‘ill-equipped and negligent’

There was one volunteer doctor on hand at this past weekend’s Wonderfruit Festival when 25,000 people poured in to party day and night at the Siam Country Club, where at least two died and others experienced medical emergencies.

Shu Rui Leo traveled from Singapore to attend the festival for her second time with a large group of friends. After two of them became seriously ill and unresponsive Sunday morning, she described being forced to search for help after ill-equipped festival medics refused aid. 

Four days after two people died at the festival, Leo told Coconuts today that she was incensed by festival organizers’ subsequent assurances that its medical staff “assessed and treated … patients immediately.”

“In light of the timely reporting of two deaths at the festival, we were deeply suspicious and angered by the Festival spokespeople’s statements…