22 May 2023
False alarm from the Aerohub fire suppression system at Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Bahru caused a smoke incident with no casualties or property damage reported.
Tag: Johor
20 May 2023
A minor fire outbreak at the compressor room next to the main building of Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) in JB around 9am today forced the temporary closure of HSA's general OT. HSA also suffers frequent water and power cuts, says a medical staff member.
4 May 2023
Malaysia
Court Of Appeal Orders High Court Trial For Sultanah Aminah Hospital Fire Negligence Lawsuits
The Court of Appeal has ordered three lawsuits over the deadly 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital Johor Bahru to be tried at the High Court, saying it's a public interest case and victims' parents were not informed about the independent inquiry's report.
20 May 2022
Johor exco Ling Tian Soon says a nurse’s salary in Singapore is equal to a specialist doctor’s pay in Malaysia, after taking into account the currency exchange.
10 May 2022
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.
25 February 2022
It is crucial to implement safer voting practices, ban physical campaigning, increase SOP enforcement, and consider postponing the elections if the public health situation drastically worsens.
25 October 2021
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.
22 October 2021
Malaysian Bar president AG Kalidas says the independent committee’s report on the 2016 fire at Sultanah Aminah Hospital is of public interest and that fair comment does not prejudice a fair trial.
20 October 2021
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.
11 October 2021
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.