LANGKAWI – Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed thanked the medical consultants and staffers who treated him when he thought that his “time was up”, after he was admitted to the National Heart Institute (IJN) in January.
“I do not know how to express my gratitude to the doctors at IJN and the visiting consultants too who treated me when I was taken ill. I really felt that my time was up,” said the 96-year-old chairman of Pejuang.
He was brought to IJN in January where he spent weeks under close observation for a condition that was unspecified besides what was disclosed as an elective medical procedure.
At one time, news filtered out that he was struggling to deal with his ailment, which was believed to be related to his heart.
In 2007, Mahathir had undergone a heart surgery at the same specialist centre here.
Mahathir, who is the Langkawi MP, posted his gratitude ahead of his two-day visit here.
Mahathir is scheduled to hand over food baskets in conjunction with the upcoming Ramadan period at the Masjid Jamek Felcra in Kg Kok and visit his pet project at the Lang Agri park in Ulu Melaka.
He is also expected to visit the Myanmar settlement in Bukit Malut where a fire tore through the colony earlier this month
Among the many people who treated him at IJN that he named were Datuk Dr Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Ariff (senior anaesthesiologist consultant), Datuk Dr Amin Ariff Nuruddin (senior cardiologist consultant), Dr Hafidz Abd Hadi (senior cardiologist consultant), Datuk Dr Azlan Hussin (senior cardiologist consultant/clinical director of interventional electrophysiology and implantable devices), Prof Datuk Dr Mohamed Ezani Md Taib (senior surgical consultant cardiothoracic), Datuk Dr Nasir Muda (senior cardiologist consultant), Datuk Dr Ahmad Khairuddin Mohamed Yusof (senior cardiologist consultant), and Datuk Dr Aizai Azan Abd Rahim (CEO and senior cardiologist consultant). – The Vibes, March 29, 2022
