Published: Sunday February 19, 2012 MYT 7:45:00 PM

Former WIM president Kamsiah Abdul Majid dies

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Women's Institute (WI) Malaysia president Tan Sri Kamsiah Abdul Majid, 90, died of old age at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC).

Her grandson, Sulaiman Idid, 41, said Kamsiah died at 12.46pm after having been warded for two weeks due to blood clots in the hand.

She leaves behind a daughter and four grandsons, he told Bernama.

Sulaiman said her body was sent to his mother's home in Taman Halimaton, Batu 3, Jalan Kelang Lama, here, for burial at the Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery before Zohor prayers Monday.

Kuala Lumpur-born Kamsiah, who was married to the former dean of Universiti Malaya's Faculty of Dentistry, Prof Datuk Dr Ibrahim Yassin, now deceased, was a woman activist during the independence era.

Sulaiman said besides holding the top post in WI, his grandmother was the first Malaysian woman appointed vice-president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW).

She had also chaired the National Advisory Council on the Integration of Women in Development (NACIWID) and National Council of Women's Organisationsn (NCWO) in the past, he added. BERNAMA

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