In fact, she said the post-mortem at the Seri Manjung Hospital was conducted according to the existing standard operating procedures (SOP).

”The deceased’s family, however, was not satisfied with the post-mortem findings and had lodged a formal report through the SISPAA (Public Complaint Management System) against the Seri Manjung Hospital last month,” she said in a statement here today.

Following the report, Ding said the Seri Manjung Hospital called for a meeting with the deceased’s family at 10am last Thursday to enable the hospital to explain the findings of the post-mortem.

However, she said the meeting could not be called to order as the family had requested their lawyers to be present.

“Their request was politely rejected by the hospital because, according to the SOP, the hospital need not discuss (the port-mortem findings) with any lawyers.

“Most probably the lawyers of Calvin Joseph (deceased’s brother) misunderstood this,” she said.

Ding said the Seri Manjung Hospital and Perak Health Department were always willing to help the deceased’s family to get any desired information on the post-mortem.

The family’s lawyers, Zaid Malek and Mahajoth Singh, in a statement yesterday called for the final and conclusive post-mortem report to be released to the family of the deceased immediately.

They claimed that on Sept 6, they had accompanied Calvin to the hospital for the meeting regarding the hospital’s refusal to release the final post-mortem report to the deceased’s family.

However, they said that the hospital refused to allow them to accompany Calvin during the meeting, as instructed by the Perak health director Dr Noorisah Mahat Noor.

Soosaimanicckam was pronounced dead at 1.45pm on May 19 at the Armed Forces Hospital.

Prior to that, he reportedly complained of chest pain and shortness of breath after completing a physical exercise, which was part of his daily routine training.