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Published: Sunday March 15, 2009 MYT 5:54:00 PM
Updated: Sunday March 15, 2009 MYT 5:59:39 PM

Liow: MMC can examine Kugan's post-mortem reports

By Yuen Meikeng

KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai will ask the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) to examine the two post-mortem reports conducted on car theft suspect A. Kugan, who died while in police custody.

He said this was due to a complaint lodged by Kugan’s mother, N. Indra, with the MMC.

“They (the MMC) should do so and I will inform them,” Liow told reporters on Sunday after attending a blood donation campaign organised by the Cheras MCA Youth division and KL Sentul Lions Club.

He said the independent inquiry, formed by the ministry to look into the two post-mortem reports carried out at the Serdang Hospital and Universiti Malaya Medical Centre respectively, had already met several times.

Indra and her lawyer, N. Surendran had on Friday, handed over a complaint letter to the MMC.

Surendran had said they wanted an investigation done into possible misconduct by the first pathologist who conducted the post-mortem on Kugan as well as the Serdang Hospital.

Surendran had said the first report noted that Kugan’s spleen was normal but the second, conducted at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, showed heavy bleeding.

In the interest of justice and fair play, the ministry had recently initiated an independent inquiry into the two post-mortem reports.