Khairy Jamaluddin says the proposed meeting tomorrow between the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital director and the victim’s brother in the April 13 case can be the “start of the conversation”.
Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital claims its paramedic followed the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia’s guidelines, even though the guidelines do not list algor mortis (body turns cold) as a situation when CPR can be withheld from a cardiac arrest victim.
Dr Kelvin Yii calls for a nationwide review to ensure that the case of HRPB’s ambulance response team allegedly withholding CPR from a patient who collapsed is not happening elsewhere.
A medical assistant from Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s ambulance team didn’t perform CPR on a man who collapsed or remove him from his car, claiming his body turned cold (algor mortis), despite arriving within 20 minutes from the time of collapse.
Anaesthesiologists and intensive care experts say there is no evidence supporting the use of a negative pressure ambulance, estimated to cost RM500,000-RM600,000, to ferry Covid-19 patients.