The family of J Soosaimanicckam has filed a report with the Malaysian Medical Council calling for an investigation into the doctor who conducted the initial post-mortem following the naval cadet’s death in May 2018.
The first autopsy, carried out at Seri Manjung Hospital in Perak, listed the cause of death as pulmonary oedema, or fluid in the lungs, which Soosaimanicckam allegedly developed during naval training at the KD Sultan Idris base in Lumut.
In 2023, the Ipoh coroner’s court returned an open verdict over the death, saying it could not determine who was responsible.
However, the following year, the Ipoh High Court set aside the coroner’s findings and ruled that, based on expert forensic testimony, Soosaimanicckam had died from leptospirosis and that his death was a direct consequence of navy…