(Hospital Kuala Lumpur Caring Home)
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.
In your moments of need or grief let us lend you a helping hand.,
We care for the needy patients and the bereaved Chinese non-Muslim
1 September 2000 - January 2008
"Rumah Kasih" offer free hospice for the poor and the needy patients. Altogether, after eight years we have received from the hospitals 287 patients.
Here we have diabetics without limbs, cancer patients disowned by their children, mentally-challenged people whose families could not be traced, paralytic patients and accident victims, old people who have simple outlived their usefulness. Too old, sick or handicapped to work. Some abandoned people have no one to turn to in the entire world. Some of their families are too poor, and some have faded out of memory.
There are families just leave their own sick family members in the hospital with false addresses and contact telephone numbers to shirk the responsibility of taking care of them.
Those with lost of memory whose relatives were traced, have retrieved them and accident victim recovered from the effects of their injuries went back to society are 170 patients.
The number of inmates that loved until the day of their last breath and passed away peacefully in our home due to old age are 67 patients. Currently, we have to take care of about 50 old, terminally ill and helpless needy patients.
Every day the hospitals encounter such needy patients. After they are discharged, they refuse to leave the wards. Since the beds are urgently needed to treat other more serious cases, they are refered to us to accommodate them and take care of their medical probles free of charge. In view of that our inmates are increasing daily.
Apart from taking care care if abandoned patients "Rumah Kasih", with the help of kind and generous charity givers have accorded dignified funeral services to 100 unfortunate patients and the deceased of poor families.
Please contact:-
Rumah Kasih, Unit Forensik,
Hospital Kuala Lumpur
50586 Kuala Lumpur
Tel. (24 hours) 03-26155555 ext. 6354/ 03-26156354/ 013-3934868/ 012-3770798
Mr. Foong Peng Lam
