KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — A hospital director accused of sexually harassing at least two female subordinates in his hospital has been transferred to the Sabah state health department (JKNS).
The former director of a government hospital in Kota Kinabalu filed a police report earlier today against one of his alleged victims, a medical doctor, as well as Kepayan assemblyman Chin Tek Ming and Warisan health bureau chief Dr Istefan Koh over a video by both politicians on the sexual harassment case.
The accused perpetrator blamed the video for his transfer from the hospital to JKNS.
“That move humiliated me and my family,” said the ex-hospital director in his police report, as sighted by CodeBlue.
“I’m making this police report so that the police can investigate Dr** in relation to the distribution of the video that has been viralled. She is a complainant against me in a few different cases and investigations.
“I believe that that action is a form of serious defamation against me and was intended to smear my good name, besides affecting my reputation and work.”
He added that the video, which allegedly painted him as a sexual predator and criminal, could potentially affect ongoing proceedings in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Tribunal (TAGS), as he cited “sub judice”.
The former hospital director also filed a separate police report today against the doctor over her sexual harassment complaint against him at TAGS.
TAGS, established under the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act 2022 (Act 840) by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, serves as an alternative to civil litigation for victims seeking redress for sexual harassment. The tribunal is empowered to order an apology from respondents and award compensation of up to RM250,000 to complainants.
“I’m making this report to officially record my full and absolute denial of every allegation made against me under Incident 1 in that complaint,” said the ex-hospital director in his police report, as sighted by CodeBlue.
He denied the doctor’s allegation of touching her right arm from the elbow to the wrist and giving her a “flying kiss” on October 31, 2025, between 9am and 10am, in an office in their hospital.
“I want to stress that all of those allegations are completely untrue. That incident, as depicted in the complaint, never happened. I never touched her arm as alleged, I never gave her a ‘flying kiss’, and I never did anything that could be construed as sexual harassment against her.”
According to the former hospital director, the doctor also accused him of going to her office in the afternoon on the same day and telling her about a previous sexual harassment complaint against him by a female staff member that was referred to the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) integrity unit.
“I was accused of making the following statement: ‘But I did nothing wrong. I didn’t bring her to hotel…At my age, I need pills (Viagra) to do that stuff (sex)’.
“I completely deny making such a statement or any statement with the same meaning to Dr**. That alleged dialogue never happened.”
The former hospital director further claimed to have a copy of a medical report by a psychiatrist, who treated his alleged victim at a private hospital, that supposedly noted that the latter had been receiving psychiatric treatment since May 16, 2025, five months before the alleged sexual harassment incident on October 31.
The medical report allegedly stated that the doctor had suffered anxiety, insomnia, repeated panic attacks, weight loss, and depression related to work pressures, and that anti-anxiety and antidepressant medications were taken before the alleged sexual harassment incident.
“That report also stated that her symptoms worsened in October 2025 in the context of alleged workplace harassment,” said the ex-hospital director.
“Based on the medical proof, I deny any allegation or perception that I was the cause of the start of her psychiatric condition.”
He urged the police to investigate his complaint and take appropriate action under the law if the allegations against him were false or baseless.
CodeBlue reported earlier today the MOH’s plans to claw back the critical service incentive payment (BIPK) allowance from the doctor via salary deductions beginning this August, after she took extended medical leave for over three months from December 2025 to March 2026.
MOH’s MyHelp channel also took four months to reply to the doctor’s sexual harassment complaint against her hospital director last December, telling her in April 2026 that her case was unrelated to workplace bullying and that her complaint would be referred to hospital management.
