A caring home to help the needy

Rumah Kasih Hospital Kuala Lumpur, one of the subsidiary services of Hospital Kuala Lumpur established in September 2000, is a charity home that take care of the old, terminally ill and helpless patients that are abandoned in the hospital (Pesakit Terdampar di Hospital). Its Advisor is Hospital Director, Datuk Dr.Hj.Ramlee Hj.Rahmat. Organising Chairman is Hospital Kuala Lumpur Senior Assistant Director, Dr.Ng Thiew kim, Honorary Advisor - Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, Chairman of Board of Visitors.

Service Manager is, Hospital Kuala Lumpur ex-Senior Medical Technologist, Mr.Foong Peng Lam. He is fully authorised with the management and contacts with the patients and family members, to help the old, terminally ill and helpless patients that are abandoned in the hospital.

and to take care of the bereaved families

Rumah kasih is also a service organization for Chinese non-muslim dealing with matters of bereavement. Upon agreed consent given by the concerned families, would provide reasonably priced dignified funeral services acceptable by families members, offered by the Hospital's authorized casket companies.

When death occurs to a loved one, the members of the grief stricken family would be very sad. They would be emotionally confusing and experiencing the feelings of panic and stress. Many feel helpless with the complicated procedure of claiming the body and register for the certificate of death. There would be numerous decisions to be made in the preparation to ensure that all necessary steps are taken and every detail covered to perform the final rites to bid farewell to their loved one.

To the families without financial ability, lost of their loved ones can bring them lots of worries because they do not know who to turn to for help. There are coffin shops every where. If the families cannot pay for the inflated costs demanded by them, they would take them (the family members) to borrow money from illegal moneylenders.

The "Hospital Kuala Lumpur Caring Home" (Rumah Kasih Hospital Kuala Lumpur) is like a savior where we give our opinion according to the family's financial ability. We provide low and reasonable charges, approved by the Hospital authorities, for funeral services offered by authorized casket companies. Furthermore, we also arrange for dignified simple but proper funeral services for the deceased of poor families totally free of charge. This is to ensure that every family could have a respectful ambient ceremony to bid farewell to their loved one, thus fulfill the wishes of their departed.

Other reasons for setting up "Hospital Kuala Lumpur Caring Home" are to prevent grief-stricken family members being harassed by unscrupulous illegal funeral salesmen/agents/touts.

Earlier, they had been loitering day and night in the Hospital. Before a patient stop the last breath they were already going in and out of the ward harassing the patient's family to accept their services. They disturbed the family's emotion and took the opportunity to simply impose exorbitant charges and commission for their services. Their outrages behaviors have been causing inconvenience to the doctors and the nursing staff.

Hence, in order to relieve distressed families being attacked by such people or middlemen and also into paying high costs for funeral services, we have set up this Caring Home to take care of the bereaved families. Upon discussion with our service adviser, these families have the right to select the Hospital's authorized casket companies or call their own undertakers.