Jul 13, 11 10:25pm
bersih rally 090711 police shooting into tung shin hospital Sehubungan itu, dalam satu kenyataan media yang dihantar kepada Malaysiakini lewat hari ini, doktor berkenaan yang bertugas di Hospital Tung Shin dan Hospital Bersalin Cina di Jalan Pudu berkata mereka akan mengemukakan afidavit bagi menyokong hujah bahawa hospital diserang.
Mereka mendakwa tindakan polis pada Sabtu lalu jelas mencabul pengiktirafan antarabangsa apabila hospital sebagai tempat santuari diserang.
Malah menurut sebelas doktor berkenaan, semasa peperangan hospital juga tidak akan diserang tetapi dalam kes di Malaysia, polis memasuki bangunan hospital bagi mencari peserta yang melarikan diri daripada tembakan gas pemedih mata dan pancutan air berkimia.
tear gas fire at tung shin hospital 090711 3"Apa yang paling memeranjatkan dan disaksikan ramai bahawa serangan yang tidak diprovokasi itu berlaku di kawasan hospital dan beberapa peserta masuk ke hospital bagi mencari perlindungan daripada tembakan gas pemedih mata dan pancutan meriam air,” kata mereka.
Ini adalah reaksi pertama oleh sekumpulan pakar perubatan berikutan penafian pihak polis dan kerajaan bahawa tidak ada gas pemedih mata dilontarkan ke perkarangan hospital berkenaan pada 9 Julai lalu.
Isnin lalu, menteri kesihatan Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata polis tidak menembak gas pemedih mata dan meriam air ke arah Hospital Tung Shin ketika menyuraikan perhimpunan BERSIH 2.0.
Katanya, dakwaan yang berlegar di media internet berhubung tembakan ke arah hospital itu adalah tidak benar.
Liow juga berkata sebenarnya polis menembak gas pemedih mata itu ke arah jalan besar dan asap berkenaan mungkin dibawa angin ke arah hospital berkenaan.
Beberapa rakaman video dan gambar yang dikemukakan terus diperlekehkan oleh kerajaan termasuk anggota jemaah menteri.
Menurut kesebelas-sebelas doktor berkenaan, pihak berkuasa tanpa rasa malu terus menafikan serangan itu di sebalik pelbagai bukti yang dikemukakan dan ramai saksi yang tampil membuat pengakuan.
tear gas fire at tung shin hospital 090711 1Kenyataan media itu ditandatangani oleh Datuk Dr Musa Nordin, Dr Sheikh Johari Bux, Dr Ng Kwee Boon, Dr Ng Swee Choon, Dr Jeffrey Abu Hassan, Dr David Quek, Dr Mary Cardozo, Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, Dr Mazeni Alwi, Datin Low Low Paik See dan Dr Steve Wong.
"Adalah menjijikkan pihak berkuasa yang diamanahkan tanggungjawab kepolisian menjaga negara dan melindungi mereka yang lemah, tanpa rasa malu menafikan perbuatan mereka secara umum, di sebalik kejadian itu disokong banyak gambar, video dan pengakuan saksi termasuk pemerhati berkecuali,” kata mereka.
Doktor-doktor itu berkata mereka tidak berhasrat menyertai polemik selepas perhimpunan itu, tetapi sebahagian daripada mereka yang sedang bertugas ketika kejadian, bersedia memberi keterangan bersumpah, jika diperlukan bagi memberitahu apa yang sebenarnya berlaku.
Mereka juga mengingatkan pemegang jawatan awam untuk menunaikan tanggungjawab mereka dengan "integriti moral, maruah, dan penuh ketelusan".
"Kegagalan mereka untuk berbuat demikian akan menimbulkan keraguan orang ramai terhadap kecekapan dan kredibiliti mereka dan juga merosakkan imej orang-orang di pejabat awam," kata mereka.
Docs blast authorities over Tung Shin assaultJul 13, 11 9:43pm
A group of senior medical officers have issued a statement condemning the authorities for the police' attack on participants in the Bersih 2.0 rally last Saturday that had violated universal recognition of hospitals as places of sanctuary.In a statement issued to the media late today, the doctors - among whom were a number who were on duty at the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity hospitals on Jalan Pudu when these were set upon by the police - said they are ready to issue affidavits to back their assertions.
Saying hospitals should be "safe sanctuaries for all" and "consecrated places of refuge and protection" even during war times, the eleven doctors and surgeons also condemned the police for entering the hospital buildings in search of some protesters trying to escape from the police crackdown on the peaceful march.
"What was most frightening and witnessed by many was the unprovoked violent assault within the hospital compounds and apprehension of several protesters who had merely ran into the hospitals to seek shelter from the tear gas and the water cannons!" the doctors said in the jointly-issued statement.
This is the first public statement made by medical officers following the police denial that personnel had shot tear gas into hospital compounds on July 9.
The assertion was followed by Health Minister Dr Liow Tiong Lai's (middle, in photo) claim that the police shot neither tear gas nor chemical-laced water cannon into the Tung Shin Hospital and the adjacent Maternity Hospital compound as some quarters have purported.
The police meted out the same treatment to participants of the Bersih rally elsewhere in Kuala Lumpur last Saturday.
Numerous photos, videos and eye-witness accounts, however, contradict Liow's statements and support reports that water cannon and tear gas canisters were, in fact, shot into the premises, acts that placed patients in the hospitals in danger.
Among the latest to vouch for the latter version of events was the Bar Council, which issued yesterday a report of the observations of its monitors during the rally on Saturday and confirmed the incident.
Signing the statement today were doctors Musa Nordin, Sheikh Johari Bux, Ng Kwee Boon, Ng Swee Choon, Ronald Mcoy, David Quek, Mary Cardozo, Farouk Musa, Mazeni Alwi, Pixie Low and Steve Wong.
"It is repulsive that the authorities entrusted with policing the nation and protecting the weak and needy, have shamelessly denied publicly, the occurrence of these incidents in spite of countless photos, videos and eye-witness accounts of what was evident to all independent observers."
Saying they did not wish to join the polemics in the aftermath of the massive rally called by the electoral reforms group Bersih, the doctors, some of whom were actually visiting or working at the Tung Shin hospitals at the time of the events, said they are ready to provide sworn affidavits "if required, as to the veracity of the incidents."
They also also reminded public office holders to discharge their duties with "moral integrity, dignity and transparency".
"Their failure to do so raises the public's doubt in their competence and credibility as much as it demeans those in the high offices."
Doctors say cops fired tear gas into Tung Shin compound
July 13, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — A group of doctors said today they were prepared to provide sworn affidavits to say that police had fired tear gas and chemical-laced water into the compounds of the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity Hospitals during the Bersih rally last Saturday.
In a statement tonight, 11 doctors, including some who were at the scene, said they were outraged at the actions of the police in firing tear gas and water cannons without scant regard for the safety of patients and doctors.
“We, the undersigned doctors, wish not to enter into the polemics of the Bersih 2.0 march on 9th July 2011 but would like to clarify the inconvenient truth.
“We are outraged at the incidents, and the subsequent responses from the authorities, to the events where tear gas and chemical-laced water were shot into the compounds of the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity Hospitals, two adjacent buildings along Jalan Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, with scant regard for the safety of patients, staff and the general public who were at the buildings that afternoon,” the doctors said.
Liow also said that shots from the water cannons had only brushed the edges of the hospital walls.
The police have also denied shooting directly into the hospital compounds after protesters had sought refuge there.
Protestors seek refuge in the compound of Tung Shin hospital after the police fired water cannons and tear gas on Saturday.
The statement tonight by the senior doctors is likely to embarrass the authorities who have claimed minimal force was used.“Hospitals are considered as safe sanctuaries for all, even during wartime, but these consecrated places of refuge and protection were violated by the defence forces that afternoon. Police even entered the buildings in search of some of these peaceful marchers.
“What was most frightening and witnessed by many was the unprovoked violent assault within the hospital compounds and the apprehension of several protesters who had merely run into the hospitals to seek shelter from the tear gas and the water cannons.
“It is repulsive that the authorities entrusted with policing the nation and protecting the weak and needy, have shamelessly denied publicly, the occurrence of these incidents in spite of countless photo/video and eyewitness accounts of what was evident to all independent observers,” they said.
Yesterday, MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, a former health minister, said the police had to fire tear gas near Tung Shin Hospital to protect its patients from Bersih 2.0 protesters who had sought refuge there.
The MCA president said the situation should be viewed “in totality”, pointing out that the police would be accused of not doing their job had they decided against dispersing the crowd of protesters that had run into the hospital.
Dr Chua also said it was difficult to determine what exactly transpired at the hospital on Saturday as it was hard to tell the whole story from the photos and videos that have emerged online since then.
The doctors who signed the statement refuting claims by Dr Chua, Liow and the police are:
Dr Ng Kwee Boon — Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
Datin Dr Low Paik See — Consultant Paediatrician
Dato’ Dr Musa Mohd Nordin — Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist
Dr Mazeni Alwi — Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist
Dr David Quek — Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Sheikh Johari Bux — Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
Dr Steve Wong — Consultant Plastic Surgeon
Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa — Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Dr Ng Swee Choon — Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Mary Cardosa — Consultant Anaesthesiologist
Dr Jeffrey Abu Hassan — Consultant Chest Physician
Say sorry for hospital attack, DAP tells Putrajaya
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
July 14, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 — The federal government should publicly apologise to Tung Shin Hospital for the police’s actions in firing tear gas and chemically-laced water into the hospital compound, the DAP said today.
Tony Pua, the DAP national publicity secretary, accused the government of trying to “cover up” the misdeeds of the police, saying it was useless for the government to continue denying what had happened.
“The Inspector-General of Police (Tan Sri Ismail Omar), the health minister (Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai) and the MCA president (Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek) must immediately issue a public apology to Tung Shin Hospital for violating its sanctity and to all Malaysians for trying to cover up the misdeeds of the police force.
“Eleven doctors at Tung Shin Hospital have bravely stepped forward to present their eyewitness accounts on the fact that the police force violated the sanctity of the hospital and to express their disgust at the authorities for having ‘shamelessly denied publicly, the occurrence of these incidents’,” said Pua in a statement.
The doctors said last night they were prepared to provide sworn affidavits to say that police had fired tear gas and chemically-laced water into the compounds of the Tung Shin and Chinese Maternity hospitals during the Bersih rally last Saturday.
In a statement, the 11 doctors, including some who were at the scene, said they were outraged at the actions of the police in firing tear gas and water cannons without scant regard for the safety of patients and doctors.
Their statement contradicts that of Liow who had denied the police had shot into the hospital compounds, claiming instead that the wind had blown the gas in.
Liow also said that shots from the water cannons had only brushed the edges of the hospital walls.
The police have also denied shooting directly into the hospital compounds after protesters had sought refuge there.
Dr Chua, a former health minister, had said the police had to fire tear gas near Tung Shin Hospital to protect its patients from Bersih 2.0 protesters who had sought refuge there.
The MCA president said the situation should be viewed “in totality”, pointing out that the police would be accused of not doing their job had they decided against dispersing the crowd of protesters that had run into the hospital.
“The IGP and the BN government should stop making fools of themselves to the entire watching world. The IGP must take responsibility for the infraction, and apologise immediately to the hospital for the ‘scant regard for the safety of patients, staff and the general public who were at the buildings that afternoon’, to quote the good doctors,” said Pua.
Tung Shin tear gas attack: ‘Say sorry’
K Pragalath
| July 14, 2011
Umno Youth leader Khairy Jamaluddin says that there is too much documented evidence to show that tear gas was fired into the hospital.
PETALING JAYA: Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin says there is overwhelming documentary evidence to show tear gas was fired into Tung Shin hospital and he feels that the government should own up.
“I think it’s better to just tell the truth… apologise and investigate the incident,” he said in a message on his micro-blogging site, Twitter.
Yesterday a group of doctors rejected Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai’s statement that no tear gas was shot into the compound of Tung Shin hospital as police cracked down on Bersih 2.0 supporters last Saturday.
His denial flies in the face of images shown on video sites over the Internet of tear gas being fired into the hospital compound.
DAP information chief Tony Pua has accused Liow of lying in his attempt to defend the police against allegations that they fired canisters of tear gas and used water cannons to spray chemical-laced water into the compound.
“Liow was lying through his teeth,” Pua said, commenting on Liow’s statement that wind had blown the tear gas into the hospital and that the chemical-laced water only brushed the edges of the hospital walls.
Liow, who is MCA’s deputy president, defended the police after meeting with hospital authorities.
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