Doc unsure of exact time of death

SHAH ALAM: The doctor who attended to Kim Jong-Nam was unable to ascertain the exact time of death upon his arrival at Hospital Putrajaya around 11am on Feb 13, the High Court learnt yesterday.

The 13th witness in the trial, medical officer Dr R. Kalyani, who was at that time serving at the hospital’s emergency department, testified that she had tended to Jong-Nam after he was brought there from the Menara clinic at klia2.

Questioned by deputy public prosecutor Raja Zaizul Faridah Raja Zaharudin on JongNam’s condition upon arrival, she said that he was not breathing and unresponsive.

Kalyani said she had performed CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on him for 30 minutes and administered 6mg of adrenaline at the same time but failed to get any vital signs of life before declaring him dead.

She also testified that she had obtained DNA samples from both suspects, Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, on Feb 16 which were subsequently handed to the police.

According to Kalyani, two female police officers brought both suspects to the noncritical unit of the hospital’s Emergency Department which she was supervising.

Samples of the suspects’ fingernails, blood and swabs from their nails, she said, were obtained from the women before they were sealed in a tube and a packet and handed to Sepang police. – by G. Surach