Some of you might remember about 3 months back, there was a major tradegy involving Tengku Ampuan Rahiman hospital in Klang with a newborn, Lai Yok Shan. Through medical negligence on the part of the hospital staff and administration, her left arm was infected, became gangrenous and subsequently, had to be amputated.
What was most outrageous was the fact that despite the initial hullaboo, after which a panel of top specialists were appointed to look after baby Yok Shan, it became apparent that these "specialists" were clearly not doing their work. Parliamentary Opposition leader, Sdr Lim Kit Siang has written on his blog post back in September:
Lai’s parents, her father Lai Kian Khee, 24 and mother Nur Tuemthong, were told on National Day eve that Yok Shan will undergo an operation expected to last from two to four hours on Sept 1 - a day after 50th Merdeka National Day - to amputate her left arm, but in actual fact, no amputation was needed as the blackened arm came off when the orthopaedic surgeon lifted and turned it.Well, approximately 10 days ago, baby Yok Shan finally received a letter offering compensation to baby Yok Shan, who was represented by DAP Selangor Legal Bureau Chief, Sdr Lim Lip Eng. When the offer was made known to the parents, they were clearly not satisfied with the offer. And despite running the risk of a protracted legal case by seeking higher compensation via the courts, the parents decided that it was the best option for baby Yok Shan.
This showed how little the panel of medical specialists knew about Yok Shan’s condition despite all the hullabaloo about its establishment to treat the baby girl!
DAP national legal bureau member, senior lawyer Sdr Gobind Singh Deo (son of DAP strongman, if you are not aware) took up the case and filed a suit against the Government asking for in excess of RM2 million in damages.
What do you think? Check out the blog, http://yokshan.blogspot.com for additional footage and details.
13 comments:
this reflect poorly on the state of our medical education and training and how our hospitals are runned
不投国阵的50个理由
1. 我国的廉洁排名，从24名降到28名，在从28名，降到今年的32名。
2. 外债达到马币1000亿。
3. 政府部门的繁文缛节，令外资却步。
4. 政府常常以招纳外资为由，组团到外国看肚皮舞。单单是许子根，一年就出国几次。花的都是你我的钱！！！
5. 政府总共批准了4000多项私营计划。
6. 私营化的三部曲是：（1）有“路”和搞好关系的人得到政府的重托而接管有关计划；（2）效率降低，亏损累累；（3）政府介入拯救。
7. 政府强调，私营化为政府省下数千亿马币的费用，可是当私营计化亏损，政府就回收，这好像是赚钱私营化赚，亏损却由政府承担。
8. 为了安抚朋党，国阵想尽办法把所有的东西私营化。
9. 总共有200多项私营计划因为亏损而被政府收回，亏损额达600亿马币。其中英达立水占了近50亿。
10. 政府收回私营企业，又以马航最荒缪，因为政府以每股RM8.00，向马航回收所有股份，可是当时马航股价只有RM2.00，为何政府会出此高价？因为当年马航主席，是以每股RM8.00，向政府购买马航。
11. 南北大道，一起再起，合约不透明，原本到2018年，可是获准一再延迟到2038年7月。
12. 入口车准證不公开，沒有公佈名單与細節又如何可以称为“非常透明”呢？人民都是傻瓜嗎？
13. 公共交通系统没有规划，造成年年亏损。
14. 槟榔屿外环大道收费公司即将在槟州出现，而得标者是Setegap Bhd，一家PN4公司，透明度在哪里？
15. 劳民伤财，花了一大堆钱搞美化。
16. 浪费公币，搞一些不实际的大白象。
17. 不切实际的幻想，比如说14年超越中国，7年内超越新加坡，自称雪州为先进州。
18. 因为太多的议员，造成政府大兴土木，好让所有人有的分。
19. 没有好好策划，兴建好了的国小，因为没有马路而废置。
20. 很多工程因为没有良好的策划而停工，需要政府回收，承包商又不用受对付。
21. 一大堆的豆腐工程，人民生命受威胁。
22. 汽油，电费，水费，一起再起。
23. 教育制度不完善，连世界有名的北京大学都不承认，反而承认印尼一所无名大学。
24. 统考已经被世界多所有名大学承认，只有我国不成认。
25. 大学固打制，造成数以万计的优秀生被邻国挖走。
26. 近10万名土著大学生失业。
27. 胡乱发放贷学金给土著，导致110亿马币收不回。
28. 公积金局虽然拥有数千亿的资金，却年年亏损，主要是时常拯救有问题的公司。
29. 公积金局的账面亏损，从1998年的4.35亿马币，狂升到2004年49.68马币。
30. 国家石油变成私人财产，因为只有老马可以调动国家石油的资金。
31. 竞争能力一再下跌，早期不如新加坡，然后不如泰国，现在又不如越南，会不会最后不如印尼？
32. 强调广招人才回流，却对人才诸多为难。
33. 我要听真话，我要做全民的首相，沦为口号。
34. 反贪污喊了那么久，有什么大鳄被告？
35. 政府部门常常用该部门的紧急储备金，来购买文具，电脑等不紧急的东西。
36. 再大，再豪华的建筑物，没有好好的管理，最后也成为废物。
37. 华小师资荒已经很严重，但为何要申请成为老师却面对刁难？
38. 沙前首长事件，证明只要一上位，短期内就能成为暴发户。
39. 国阵通过太多太多不利人民的条例。
40. 股市被财团控制，人民的钱化为乌有。
41. 市议会往往没有以人民利益为主，胡乱制定条例。
42. 警察滥权，其善怕恶。
43. 朝夕令改，没有深入研究。
44. 治安败坏，人心惶惶。
45. 为人降低犯罪案，警察阻止人民报案。才用“鸵鸟政策”。
46. 控制媒体，对异议者加以封杀。
47. 为了巩固政权，进行不公平的选区划分。
48. “居者有其屋”，被政府官员滥用，导致人民需要花一笔“咖啡钱”才能购得廉价屋。
49. 为了实现0%非法木屋区，无理拆迁，造成人民无家可归。
50. 非法木屋区常常会有无名大火，好像帮着国阵实现0%非法木屋区。通常都是在早上，因为这样不会出人命。
Dont just take the blame game route, take action to secure justice. This is not politics and such interference could only backfire , and everybody lose.
NEP DOCTORS, NEP IDIOT MINISTERS, what next?
Blame game again :( So even if we help it is not going to be appreciated, so why bother, sad it to come to this
We are taking ACTION!!!
Wow...I'm speechless...they are not even remotely sorry for the entire incident. By the time baby Yok Shan reaches her teens, this is probably not even enough for a prosthetic forearm!
It was reported only RM2 million claim as compensation from the father. This is nothing compared with the multi million corrupted out from government coffers in the Auditor General report. DAP should advise to file for more claims.
According to the government, its hospitals are on par with those overseas and Malaysians should not resort to treatment overseas.
But when the ministers and other senior government officials as well as the well heeled and well connected needed medical treatment, where do they go?
Overseas, of course!
Looks like the local hospitals are only fit the the poor and disconnected!
This case speaks volumes of our local government hospitals!
Yet our government has no qualms AT ALL about spewing lies! And more lies!
However, it looks like their days of spewing lies and more lies are going to be numbered.
In fact, the shocking performance of the incumbent PM is a bonus to Malaysians.
HE REALLY OPENED THEIR EYES TO THE DEPLORABLE WAY THIS COUNTRY IS GOVERNED.
And the people are galvanised into seeking change!
I agree that the compensation is a bit too low for the mistake of such magnitude.
About the amputation despite the gangrenous arm falling off, I would say that it's not fair to throw accusations before we know the entire picture. When a gangrenous arm falls off, it's not like it's as clean as a surgical cut, so there might be some stump attached to the body, infection, wound infection etc, so some sort of surgical amputation to clean up the remaining parts might well be needed.
RM2.0million!!!
Gobind, I am disappointed, very disappointed with you. It should be RM20.0million.
Think... the child will be without a left arm. Makes her life soooooo difficult.
Yes, Gobind, make it 20m. these blundering idiots needs to be made responsible and pay for their blunders.
RM2 mil for an arm? Ask that bastard doctor to chop his arm off, I'll gladly start a pool to collect RM2 mil for him!! Why his face is never shown to the public, and not to mention all the f**k up doctors that took life becos of their silly mistakes? No name, no picture. Don't we have the right to be warn of fools like them? Is he still being allow to practice medicine?
And Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek even have the audacity to say why are Yok Shan's parents returning to that hospital is they have no confident in them. I'll tell him why.
IT'S BECOS:
(1) HE IS A MALAYSIAN, THAT'S HIS RIGHT TO USE THAT GOVT. HOSPITALS, OR WHICH EVER ONE HE CHOOSE.
(2) IF HE HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO GO TO A PRIVATE HOSPITAL, HE WOULD CERTAINLY GO.
(3) IT'S BECOS OF YOUR SCREW UP DOCTORS THAT COS HIS CHILD SUCH PAIN, SO U A**HOLE BETTER GOD DAMN WELL FIX IT.
Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek is a parent. He should know the feeling when he was in the delivery room waiting anxiously for his baby to enter this world, with all limbs intact. Just imagine if that incident would have happen to him (or any of the VIPs). Heads will roll, that I can guarantee you.
But unfortunately, this has happen to a bloke who's not so important, a layman as ordinary as any of us.
I read with interest regarding the opinion of many which this issue has generated. I am a surgeon currently working in the UK. I don't know the exact pathology in this case but from my experience, gangrene can result in auto-amputation which may not necessary be apparent to the surgeon during the initial stages. I suppose to try to remove the arm which has gone gangrenous in front of the parents would be too traumatic for them and hence examination under anasthesia + amputation of the arm +/- further debridement of non-viable tissue would be best done under GA which I believe and hope is the case. I am not going into the political side of things as I am not clueed up in that area at all. I am not protecting doctors either if a gross negligence has occurred but as someone has already mentioned earlier, there is always another side to the story....this is simply what I think took place. It is uncommon for superficial skin infection to turn into gangrene unless it is infected by a type of really nasty bug. If such is the case, the only real option is amputation. The vast majority can be treated succesfully by antibiotics. Further, recognition of skin cellulitis (which is the first stage) is not difficult. A medical student can do that, so perhaps after a series of antibiotics that this girl has had, they did not improve her infection. Of course the other possibility is that the doctor(s) just missed it..which I must stressed again is too obvious to ignore.
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