KLANG: A patient suspected to be mentally disturbed at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah’s (HTAR) Covid-19 ward recently stabbed another patient in the same ward with a knife.
South Klang OCPD Asst Comm Shamsul Amar Ramli said the incident happened at about 6.30pm on June 9.
“The victim is in stable condition and has undergone surgery, ’’ he said.
The attacker had grabbed the fruit knife and stabbed the victim in the stomach, he said, adding that the suspect was transferred to the Sungai Buloh Hospital two days later.
In an unrelated incident at the same hospital on June 6, ACP Shamsul Amar said the son of a deceased Covid-19 patient roughed up a doctor at the lift lobby.