Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Dec 2015 · Part XII · Mortality Assessment
68. Medical and dental practitioners to provide information
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
For the purposes of the functions of a Committee, the
Committee
“Committee” means a National Mortality Assessment Committee. Establishment of National Mortality Assessment Committee
Chairman may require any medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other relevant person to supply all or any specified information in his possession relating to an assessable death, and to the anesthesia or anesthetic procedure or medical technology or medical procedure or surgery or surgical procedure relating to any assessable death, including clinical or medical records, and other material documents in his possession or under his control, notwithstanding subsection 112(4)
supply
“supply” means supply by way of sale, exchange or gift and includes receiving, keeping or storing for the purpose of supply. Private Healthcare Facilities and Services 49 Prohibition on supply of natural human blood and blood product
or any rule of law or custom or practice to the contrary.
Every medical practitioner and dental practitioner and any other person who has knowledge of an assessable death shall answer fully to the best of his knowledge and ability every relevant question asked of him by a Chairman of a Committee.
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;
The Chairman of a Committee shall give to the respective
Committee all the information he receives under section 67 and this section in relation to an assessable death, other than—
the name of the deceased person;
the names of the medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other person who carried out the anesthetic, medical or surgical procedure or who used any medical technology concerned; and
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the name of the private healthcare facility or place where the death occurred.
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
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;
supply
Defined · s 54“supply” means supply by way of sale, exchange or gift and includes receiving, keeping or storing for the purpose of supply. Private Healthcare Facilities and Services 49 Prohibition on supply of natural human blood and blood product
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