Lawyer Harwinder Kaur, who is appearing for J Krishnasamy, said Judge Ahmad Bache made his views known during a case management last month.

“I have written to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and am now awaiting a reply,” she told FMT when asked for an update on the suit.

Harwinder said another case management will be held before Ahmad on June 23.

In his statement of claim filed in December 2020, Krishnasamy listed his son’s many amputations.

Vimal Raj, 18, is now without his left hand below the elbow, right leg below the knee and the heel and toes on his left foot.

The health ministry, Ampang Hospital, three doctors and the government have been named as defendants.

Krishnasamy claimed this was due to the doctors’ negligence and breach of duty. He is asking for special, aggravated, exemplary and general damages.

He said Vimal Raj was a normal child without any critical illnesses or genetic disorders, except for having an allergic reaction in his genitalia before his admission to the hospital.

He was only diagnosed as suffering from “balanitis”, which is said to be a treatable condition that commonly happens in uncircumcised males.

The father said the surgeries, conducted between March 15 and Nov 26, 2019, caused Vimal Raj to suffer severe disabilities.

The defendants claim the boy’s condition is due to his parents’ negligence.

They listed several examples of this negligence, among which were the failure to properly provide the patient’s medical history, failure to ensure the patient’s health was taken care of when he was at home or outside; as well as failure to ensure that the patient took antibiotics and antiviral medication given by the hospital.