Category: Hospitals

DAP calls for public inquiry whether the negligence of University Hospital and Kuala Lumpur General Hospital which has caused the death of a Red crescent General Service Officer.

By Ketua Pambangkang and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, On Wednesday, 17 August 1977.

DAP calls for public inquiry whether the negligence of University Hospital and Kuala Lumpur General Hospital which has caused the death of a Red crescent General Service Officer.

I have written to the Minister of Health, Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew, calling for an inquiry whether the negligence of the University Hospital and the Kuala Lumpur Hospital which led to the death of a Red Crescent General Service Officer in May this Year. Continue reading DAP calls for public inquiry whether the negligence of University Hospital and Kuala Lumpur General Hospital which has caused the death of a Red crescent General Service Officer.

DAP wants legislative assurance that boards of managements of Chinese primary schools would not be wound up

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP MP for Kota Melaka, Y.B. Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Motion of Thanks on the Royal Address on Tuesday, 22nd March 1977

DAP wants legislative assurance that boards of managements of Chinese primary schools would not be wound up

This is the 20th anniversary of Malaysia since Independence in 1957, but the basic issues of nation building remain unresolved. Continue reading DAP wants legislative assurance that boards of managements of Chinese primary schools would not be wound up

Government medical brain drain

The Minister of Health, in reply to a question by my colleagues, the Member for Sungei Besi, said yesterday that since 1969, a total of 965 doctors have left the government service. If we look at the yearly figures, we will note that the number of doctors leaving the government service has been on the marked increase year after year.

Even more serious is the resignation of specialists from the government service. This year alone, some 20 specialists have resigned. The government can ill afford the loss of experienced and competent specialists suffering a great fall in the standard of medical standards in the hospitals. Continue reading Government medical brain drain

Why has the Ministry of Health hushed up the 1973 Malacca Hospital mass blood poisoning deaths

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, when introducing a motion to cut $10 from the Development Estimates for the Ministry of Health for 1976 on: 30th July1976

Why has the Ministry of Health hushed up the 1973 Malacca Hospital mass blood poisoning deaths without either a full public inquiry or disclosure of the negligence causing so many unnecessary deaths?

In the previous session of Parliament, I had on 14th January 1974 during the Committee Stage of the 1974 Budget, moved a $10 cut of the Ministry of Health’s salary over the first mass deaths in the Malacca Hospital in July/August 1973. Continue reading Why has the Ministry of Health hushed up the 1973 Malacca Hospital mass blood poisoning deaths

Malacca Hospital deaths II: DAP calls for public inquiry into the mass infant deaths in November

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang dan DAP Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on 9.12.1975 to cut the salary of the Health Minister by $10 during the 1976 Committee of Supply debate.

Malacca Hospital deaths II: DAP calls for public inquiry into the mass infant deaths in November.

I rise to move that the Minister of Health’s salary be cut by $10. Continue reading Malacca Hospital deaths II: DAP calls for public inquiry into the mass infant deaths in November

Call for a public inquiry into the mass baby deaths in the Malacca Hospital

Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement:

Call for a public inquiry into the mass baby deaths in the Malacca Hospital

I have received complaints, and have investigated and ascertained, that there were a series of abnormal deaths of infants in the Malacca Hospital during the week beginning on Nov. 21. Continue reading Call for a public inquiry into the mass baby deaths in the Malacca Hospital

The 1973 Malacca Hospital blood poisoning deaths

Statement By DAP Secretary- General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka. Lim Kit Siang, at a Press Conference held at DAP Malacca Office on Saturday, 9.5.1975 at 10.30 a.m.

The 1973 Malacca Hospital blood poisoning deaths

Twenty- one months ago, on August 22, 1973, I called a press conference in this office to make public the unusually high number of deaths in the Malacca Hospital during the period July 21 to August 20 because of the breakdown of the hospital’s autoclave sterilisation plant causing blood poisoning and deaths of patients. Continue reading The 1973 Malacca Hospital blood poisoning deaths

Call on Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew to pay compensation to the deceased families of the victims of Malacca Hospital poisoning in July/August 1973

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a Public Rally at the Esplanade, Penang on Saturday, 5rd February 1974 at 9 p.m.

Call on Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew to pay compensation to the deceased families of the victims of Malacca Hospital poisoning in July/August 1973

Senator Yeap Kheng Yam of MCA, Perak, and other MCA related circles are very unhappy that I have taken up in the mass deaths in the Malacca Hospital in July and August 1973, and my motion to cut the salary of the Minister of Health, Lee Siok Yew, by $100. Continue reading Call on Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew to pay compensation to the deceased families of the victims of Malacca Hospital poisoning in July/August 1973

The Malacca Hospital mass deaths

I MOVE to cut the salary of the Minister of Health by $100.

On August 22, 1973, 1 called a press conference in my Malacca office making public the unusually high number of deaths in the Malacca Hospital during July and August last year, because of the breakdown of the hospital’s autoclave, i.e. sterilisation plant, leading to blood and saline poisoning of the patients.

I called for a public inquiry into the deaths, and into the negligence and maladministration of the Malacca Hospital which made such mass deaths possible. Continue reading The Malacca Hospital mass deaths

Death Falls at Malacca General Hospital

Adjournment Speech by DAP Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Ra’ayat on Wednesday, 19th January, 1972.

Death Falls at Malacca General Hospital

At the beginning of December, within 24 hours, two patients fall to their deaths from a high-rise ward at the Malacca General Hospital.

I then called for immediate action by the Hospital Authorities to prevent a recurrence of such death falls. I knew it is not possible to completely prevent such incidents, but when two death falls take place of each other within 24 hours, then it behooves the authorities to take pre-emptive action.

I regret that no action was taken. Two weeks after, another death fall occurred. Continue reading Death Falls at Malacca General Hospital