By : M. KUMAR
A TRAINEE doctor was found dead in a toilet at the Kajang Hospital after he eas believed to have overdosed on an unidentified drug.
Lee Chang Tat, 29, was found lifeless in the men's toilet of the paediatric ward at 7am yesterday by hospital staff who went looking for him.
He was found with a used syringe beside him, which police believe he had used to inject himself with a drug to fight off fatigue.
It is learnt that Lee, who had been working at Kajang Hospital for the past three years, had been on call for five consecutive days.
Selangor health director Datuk Dr Azman Abu Bakar said hospital staff who found Lee tried to resuscitate him but were unsuccessful.
“He was rushed to the emergency room but it was too late,” he said.
Lee, he stressed, had no previous medical problems.
A security guard at the hospital said they found him when someone called Lee on his cellular phone and heard it ringing from inside the restroom.
“We had to break into the toilet cubicle and found him lying there with the syringe," he said.
Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab said Lee, who studied medicine in Uruguay, had been complaining to his family about the hectic working hours.
“His family said he had also been planning to go on a holiday to Cambodia soon with friends,” he said.
ACP Abdul Rashid confirmed that an initial post-mortem indicated that Lee had died of an overdose, adding that the case was being investigated as sudden death.
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