Family of specialist doctor in Sabah probing the real cause of her suicide

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The suicide case of a young specialist doctor identified as Dr Tay Tien Yaa had shocked her family, and they claim her oppressive workplace at the Lahad Datu Hospital led to her death.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00This picture, you must see.

00:03The PC is on the face with...

00:05You know, recently there's a doctor, specialist, by the name of this Dr Tay Tien Yap,

00:12mysteriously died.

00:15And later, they claim that she committed suicide.

00:20It was a shock news to us, and especially to our parents.

00:25We found something from our sisters on WhatsApp conversations.

00:29So from there, we found...

00:32Basically, she did some complaints about her workload,

00:37and how she was being treated in the hospital.

00:42And she complained a lot about her work since the early of August.

00:47Well, we cannot imagine just within one month,

00:50and how many things that she needed to be done.

00:53We heard that she worked from morning 8 something until the late night,

00:58maybe 11, 12, and even 1 something.

01:02I think that this working hour is quite long to a normal doctor.

01:06We will be eventually, or rather we are acting for the family,

01:11on this very sad situation of grief that we have received.

01:16We are going through the evidence now.

01:18We've gone through part of it,

01:20and we are still accumulating more evidence,

01:23as it's been just that they finished their bereavement period

01:28of the funeral and things like that.

01:31We're not going to leave any stones unturned here.

01:34All right?

01:36We will work with the ministry.

01:38We will work with the respective police departments and authorities

01:43to get to the bottom of this.

01:45This very young specialist, you know, at such a young age,

01:50taking her life like this is a very sad state of affairs.

01:54All right?

01:55And this shouldn't happen not only in the medical profession,

01:59but in any profession.

02:01But let me tell whoever who may be responsible

02:05for this young girl's miserable death,

02:09we will come by the book, by the law,

02:12and the rule of law will take effect,

02:14and we will get everyone possible, and we will sue.

02:44This is a complaint from our director of the Ministry of Health,

02:48so that our medical personnel can work for the people

02:52in a safe environment.

02:55I mentioned earlier that she and her husband

02:58have a very good relationship.

03:00Two weeks before the incident,

03:02they went on a trip to Sabah together.

03:06I can only say that this time she was transferred to Sabah,

03:11and what she hoped for was to return to the West Bank

03:15two years later.

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