Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) in Johor Bahru is one of the busiest public hospitals in Malaysia, with over 1,600 outpatients and 600 emergency ward patients daily.
HSI’s server was down Feb 20-24. Now that the server is back up, we have to manually insert patient notes from the BCS system, which we used during server downtime, back to the main server. I can't stress enough how much time it took just for one patient.
During my housemanship at Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru Hospital in the 1980s, a specialist used to abuse us HOs verbally, kick us, and throw case notes and scream profanities at us in front of patients and nurses.
The Health Ministry has yet to publish an independent committee’s report on the Oct 25, 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital that a committee member describes as a preventable tragedy.
Lawyers say the independent committee’s report on the deadly 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital is evidence that is directly relevant to three court cases over the disaster.
The government says the Sept 2020 lawsuits by the parents of three patients killed in the Oct 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital were filed beyond the three-year time limit, but the plaintiffs argue they were denied all information about the incident within that period.
The government also tells three lawsuits filed over the deadly 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital that the independent inquiry’s report on the disaster is an official secret of the highest-level classification.
Parents of Neeramaladevi Chandran, who was killed in the 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital along with five patients, reached a court settlement in August 2020 with the government that agreed to pay them RM136,000 in damages without admission of liability.
A fire broke out at the Jalan Masjid public health clinic in Kuching, Sarawak, on October 3, but did not result in casualties; the 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Baru left six dead.