A medical officer at Klinik As-Salam Bandar Baru Bangi, Dr Azfar Hussin, 34, said Zulfarhan came back to the clinic on the morning of May 31, 2017, merely four days after receiving his first treatment there on May 27.
The doctor said he noticed several differences in the cadet during the second visit when compared with the first one, including the fact that the victim appeared fatigued and dehydrated, with dry lips and tongue.
“(During the second visit) Zulfarhan required more help from his friends to move and take off his clothes compared with four days earlier, when he was able to do it all by himself.
“Physical examination also found that the victim was dehydrated as his lips and tongue were dry.
“He also vomited several times during the examination,” the doctor said during examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Othman Abdullah in Zulfarhan’s torture-and-murder trial which entered the third day today.
The 7th prosecution witness said he was informed that the victim had also been vomiting for a couple of days before returning to the clinic.
Earlier, Azfar said he asked Zulfarhan why he came back to the clinic and did not go straight to hospital, and the victim told him that he was getting better.
In fact, he said Zulfarhan said he just needed dressings on his wounds and would go to the hospital later.
“His friends also said the same, that he was getting better and just needed wound dressings.
“I told him that he should have gone straight to Serdang Hospital, but he said ‘it was okay, I just need wound dressings as I have difficulty moving because I did not get the bandage around my thigh the first time’,” the doctor said.
He also said Zulfarhan wanted him to clean and apply bandages on the wounds on his thigh and backside.
The doctor said he also carried out further examination on the youth and found that the vital indicators, including blood pressure, heartbeat, oxygen level and body temperature, of Zulfarhan showed normal readings, and that the wounds looked like they were healing well.
When asked by Othman who were the two friends who accompanied Zulfarhan during the second visit to the clinic, the doctor pointed at two of the accused, Muhammad Akmal Zuhairi Azmal and Muhammad Azamuddin Mad Sofi, in the dock.
To another question on when he learnt about Zulfarhan’s death, Azfar said a team of policemen and officers from the health ministry came to his clinic to record his statement on the cadet officer’s death on June 2, 2017.
Six UPNM students — Akmal, Azamuddin, Muhammad Najib Mohd Razi, Muhammad Afif Najmudin Azahat, Mohamad Shobirin Sabri and Abdoul Hakeem Mohd Ali — have been charged with murdering and abetting to murder Zulfarhan at Room 04-10 of UPNMs’ Jebat hostel block between 4.45am and 5.45am on May 22 last year.
They were charged under Section 302 and 109 of the Penal Code and face the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
They were also charged, together with 13 other students, with voluntarily causing hurt on Zulfarhan with an intention to get the victim to confess over the theft of a laptop.
The charge, under Section 330 of the Penal Code, provides for a maximum jail term of seven years and fine, if convicted. The trial before Judge Azman Abdullah continues on April 26.