Deputy health DG leads probe into ‘incidents’ linked to alleged ventilator failure

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PETALING JAYA: Deputy health director-general (DG) Nor Fariza Ngah is leading an investigation committee on several deaths allegedly involving the use of ventilators in the treatment of patients at a Klang Valley hospital.

PETALING JAYA: Deputy health director-general Nor Fariza Ngah is leading an investigation committee on several deaths allegedly involving the use of ventilators in the treatment of patients at a Klang Valley hospital.

The ministry today also said that the hospital would meet with the patients’ next-of-kin to inform them of the outcome of the committee’s investigation.FMT previously cited the source as claiming that in the first case, medical personnel failed to resuscitate a patient who had been rendered unconscious following the alleged malfunction of a ventilator.

According to doctors, denying the brain oxygen for more than 15 minutes is likely to result in death or brain death.

 

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