Orang Asli women from the Temiar tribe at Kg Makmur in Ulu Kinta, Perak, speak about mobile clinics for health checks and a Jakoa health transit station turned makeshift maternity ward.
Saarani Mohamad says Perak is an ageing society, with the emigration of about 124,000 young people. About 11% of Perak’s population is aged 65 and older, nearly double the nationwide rate.
Howard Lee says the multi-cornered contests in GE15, involving parties that have been in government at some point, bring a new paradigm of focusing on policies instead of politics and alliances.
An external inquiry agreed that the paramedic who attended to Ipoh teacher Kumaraveloo Terpari “should have done” CPR, but reportedly said the MA wasn't in the "right mindset".
The Health Ministry's National Committee on Resuscitation Training (NCORT) states in a 2012 guideline: “It is a duty of every doctor to attempt resuscitation on any patients with cardiac arrest.”
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.
Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran says there is a “serious trust deficit” in Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, as he calls for inquiry findings on Kumaraveloo’s case to be made public.
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.
In the past two weeks, Perak reported 146 Covid-19 deaths and 22 brought-in-dead (BID) cases, compared to 77 total Covid-19 deaths and 6 BID cases in July.