General Hospital

Excerpt from The Star, Sunday, 31st May 2009


Sunday May 31, 2009

Dad to file complaint against hospital over daughter’s death

RAUB: A distraught father plans to file a complaint against the Raub General Hospital for alleged negligence after his six-year-old daughter died following treatment for headache, stomach pains and vomiting.

Lai Han Yuen said he took his daughter Mei Ying to the hospital after she complained of discomfort at about 4pm yesterday.

The medical personnel who attended to Mei Ying, gave her six bottles of medicine but her condition did not improve even after she took the doses, he said.

“My daughter was still complaining of headache and pain in the stomach after consuming the medicine and she vomited again. I took her back to the hospital at about 7pm,” he said at his house here.

This time, she was sent to the emergency ward where she was placed on a drip and a blood sample was taken.

However, Mei Ying’s condition worsened and at about 10pm, three doctors who attended to her advised that she be admitted. She was pronounced dead at about 3am.

Lai said he was unhappy with the way the case was handled and he claimed the medical personnel had not conducted a thorough examination on his daughter.

He wants the hospital to provide a proper explanation and state the cause of death.

Mei Ying’s mother Foong Chia Ling, was too distressed to speak to reporters.