Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Dec 2015 · Part XII · Mortality Assessment
66. Functions of National Mortality Assessment Committee
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The Committee shall have the following functions:
Committee
“Committee” means a National Mortality Assessment Committee. Establishment of National Mortality Assessment Committee
to receive and consider information relating to assessable deaths;
to promote the safe and efficient use of anesthetic, medical or surgical procedures, or medical technology.
Without prejudice to the generality of the following provisions, the Committee shall in carrying out its functions:
determine the extent, if any, to which—
anesthesia or any anesthetic procedure;
medical technology or any medical procedure; or
surgery or any surgical procedure, contributed to the death;
determine whether the assessable death under subparagraph (2)(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) might have been averted had the effects or consequences of anesthesia or anesthetic procedure, medical technology or medical procedure, or surgery or surgical procedure, had been better or more fully understood or provided for.
In performing its functions the Committee shall not allocate any blame to any medical or dental practitioner or to any other person.
Terms defined in s 64
assessable death
Defined · s 64“assessable death” means a death that, in the opinion of any medical practitioner or dental practitioner, may be related to anesthesia or any anesthetic procedure, or medical technology or any medical procedure, or surgery or any surgical procedure;
Committee
Defined · s 64“Committee” means a National Mortality Assessment Committee. Establishment of National Mortality Assessment Committee
Part XIII
Quality of Healthcare Facilities and Services
Part XIV
Board of Management and Advisory Committee
Part XV
Managed Care Organization
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Enforcement
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Power of Minister
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