Man claims mum died in hospital after roughhandling by houseman - The Rakyat Post

http://ift.tt/1qPo46o IPOH, July 10: A man today claimed that his aged mother died all of a sudden at a hospital here after a houseman roughly removed wires attaching her to several monitoring machines. Wong Kok Yew, 48, said his mother, Agnes Liu Soo Thye, 76, died on March 16 after having been admitted to the hospital about 9pm the previous day for a lung ailment. “About 5am the following day (March 16), one of four housemen who came to my mother’s bed, removed several wires roughly. “My mother, who was fast asleep, woke up in shock and started trembling, and the bed shook for about 10 minutes as she tried to withstand the pain. “The readings on all the monitoring equipment dropped and the doctor confirmed that my mother had died,” he told reporters at the Barisan Nasional (BN) Complaints and Service Centre here. Wong, who operates a Chinese traditional medicine outlet, said the houseman removed the wires because the patient on the adjacent bed was in a critical condition and in need of the monitoring equipment. “My mother was old and had soft and sensitive skin. Surely, she would have been shocked when the wires attached to her body were removed roughly. “I was already unhappy because my mother had screamed in pain when the housemen took her blood sample earlier,” he said. Wong said he lodged a complaint with the hospital and sought an explanation over the incident, but there had been no response. He said he would consider suing the hospital if it did not respond. Meanwhile, the chairman of the complaints and service centre, Mohd Rawi Abdullah, said the centre had written to the hospital for an explanation. “We have received many complaints from the people on the unsatisfactory service at the hospital, including elderly people being subjected to rough treatment and getting shouted at.” Read more: http://ift.tt/1qPo46o



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