Kota Kinabalu Archives

17 August 2026

Malaysia

Ex-Hospital Director Mulling Legal Action Against Transfer: Lawyer

An ex-hospital director's lawyer says her client is considering legal action against the government over his transfer to JKN Sabah because he wasn't given the right to be heard, nor informed about the findings of an internal probe into sexual harassment.

27 July 2026

Malaysia

Hospital Director Transferred To JKN Sabah After Sexual Harassment Cases

The hospital director accused of sexually harassing at least two women at a public hospital has been transferred to JKNS. He also filed a police report against one of his alleged victims, a doctor, over her complaint at the Anti-Sexual Harassment Tribunal.

27 July 2026

Malaysia

MOH Clawing Back Critical Allowance Payments From Sexual Harassment Victim

MOH is instituting critical allowance repayments from a doctor who took over 3 months' MC after she was allegedly sexually harassed by her hospital director. MOH's MyHelp took 4 months to address her complaint and merely referred it to hospital management.

24 July 2026

Malaysia

Hospital Director Accused Of Sexually Harassing Second Victim

A Warisan leader has alleged a second sexual harassment victim of the director of a Kota Kinabalu hospital, who filed a complaint in July 2025, before another complainant filed a police report in January 2026 for alleged sexual harassment in October 2025.

5 February 2024

Malaysia

Fearing Patient Harm, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Doctors Oppose Rotation To Emergency Department

Some QEH doctors oppose MOH’s order to rotate medical officers from other departments, especially non-clinical, to the emergency department’s Green Zone for the new 2-hour waiting time KPI. As some have left clinical work for years, they fear patient harm.

15 September 2023

Malaysia

Only One Cardiologist In Entire Sabah: Shafie Apdal

Semporna MP Shafie Apdal says there's only one cardiologist in the whole region of Sabah – in Queen Elizabeth Hospital (HQE), Kota Kinabalu. He also says HQE I, with 700 beds, has to get food supplies from HQE II because HQE I doesn't have a kitchen.

Tag: Kota Kinabalu

Ex-Hospital Director Mulling Legal Action Against Transfer: Lawyer

Hospital Director Transferred To JKN Sabah After Sexual Harassment Cases

MOH Clawing Back Critical Allowance Payments From Sexual Harassment Victim

Hospital Director Accused Of Sexually Harassing Second Victim

Fearing Patient Harm, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Doctors Oppose Rotation To Emergency Department

Only One Cardiologist In Entire Sabah: Shafie Apdal

MOH And JPA Making It Hard For Specialists To Stay — Specialist

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