On 20th November 2023, My father was admitted to UNICU HKL due to lack of oxygen, private hospitals cannot check him in because he is a transplant patient and he has records in Government's HKL

Due to this we are forced to admit him into HKL, 3 days later after admittance, hospital announce that they have detected a CAT5 COVID confirmed within his system, hence moved him into Isolated UNICU for personal nurse to monitor him.
His oxygen levels are improving slowly at around 90-95, as he's still awake and able to do minimal activities.

On the 3rd of December, his COVID was confirmed by doctor to be no more. But he must remain in UNICU (High Dependency ICU) for further monitoring due to post COVID effect still linger around.

5th December, a doctor written a transfer letter to have him transferred from a High Dependency ICU Ward to a Normal Ward in Institut Perubatan Respirasi (IPR) at 6PM, he arrived there by 6:30PM being placed on a normal ward along with other patients.

He was doing well on same day at 11PM we last checked with him, until later at 3:30AM, we received a call from the doctor there that he has breathing difficulties, asking all of us as a family to get there as soonest.

The time we reach there, almost 4AM on the clock, he's already laying there, lifeless.

We asked the doctor why won't they inform us sooner to allow us exchange a few more words before his passing, doctor then informed us his actual passing time is 3:10AM.

Prayers and Post Mortem is under way..



So the question is :

On the scenario above, can we hire a lawyer to sue either the hospital or the doctor in charge who transferred him for negligence.

As we believe that if he remained in UNICU with a personal nurse monitoring him, he would still be alive and well. We are very disappointed where the doctor who transferred him did not remark that this patient requires High Dependency Ward for close monitoring.

The patient was transferred there but only lasted 7 hours due to breathing difficulty and passed away without being monitored closely.


That being said, Please advise, because us as a family are unable to accept this.

This post has been edited by adamfoo90: Dec 6 2023, 09:04 PM

From 11PM, he was okay, and all he does was sleeping, but as you know. Normal ward will not be monitored often by the nurse or doctors in charge

He never experience such incident during his stay at UNICU

Being less than 7 hours in the new hospital, he passed..

This post has been edited by adamfoo90: Dec 6 2023, 09:17 PM

Age 60, this Covid is his first.