KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has refuted news portal articles which claimed that there was no magnetic resonance imaging for former opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim while he was detained in the Sungai Buloh prison.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said two MRI were done on him, on June 2 and Aug 24, with the reports prepared by the Kuala Lumpur Hospital consultant radiologists.
Copies of the reports and CDs of the images were handed to Anwar’s family on July 14 and Sept 21, he said in a statement here yesterday when referring to articles published by MalaysiaKini, The Malaysian Insider and Free Malaysia Today concerning Anwar’s health and his treatment.
Dr Noor Hisham said the panel of experts treating Anwar consists of 17 clinical consultants from eight medical disciplines, including orthopaedic surgery and muscular skeletal radiology.
“With regard to seeking a second opinion on his chronic shoulder injury, this has been provided through the participation of four external orthopaedic consultants in the panel of experts,” he said. (The other experts are from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
In addition, a consultant orthopaedic arthroscopy and sports surgeon from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre was allowed by the prison authority to examine Anwar this morning as requested by the family to give “another second opinion”, Dr Noor Hisham said.
“All decisions regarding Anwar’s treatment are made based on recommendations of the panel of consultants and no one of the panel makes decisions on his or her own,” Dr Noor Hisham said. — Bernama