Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Dec 2015 · Part XII · Mortality Assessment
67. Reporting of assessable deaths
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
A person in charge of a private healthcare facility or service shall ensure that every medical practitioner or dental practitioner who administers any anesthesia or anesthetic or medical or surgical
person in charge
“person in charge” means a person possessing such qualification, training and experience as may be prescribed and who shall be responsible for the management and control of the private healthcare facility or service to which a licence or registration relates;
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procedure or uses any medical technology on a patient whose death is an assessable death shall, as soon as practicable, but in any case not more than 72 hours after he learns of the occurrence of that death, notify the Director General of the name of the patient, his opinion as to the cause of the death, and his own name and address.
assessable death
“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;
On receipt of any notification under subsection (1), the
Director General shall forthwith in writing forward the information to the Chairman of a Committee.
Director General
“Director General” means the Director General of Health, Malaysia;
Terms defined in this Act
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
Director General
Defined · s 2“Director General” means the Director General of Health, Malaysia;
person in charge
Defined · s 2“person in charge” means a person possessing such qualification, training and experience as may be prescribed and who shall be responsible for the management and control of the private healthcare facility or service to which a licence or registration relates;
private healthcare facility
Defined · s 2“private healthcare facility” means any premises, other than a Government healthcare facility, used or intended to be used for the provision of healthcare services or health-related services, such as a private hospital, hospice, ambulatory care centre, nursing home, maternity home, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, community mental health centre, haemodialysis centre, medical clinic, dental clinic and such other healthcare or health-related premises as the Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, specify;
Part XIII
Quality of Healthcare Facilities and Services
Part XIV
Board of Management and Advisory Committee
Part XV
Managed Care Organization
Part XVI
Enforcement
Part XVII
Power of Minister
Part XVIII
Miscellaneous
Part XIX