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Yek: She had called her son after finding her windscreens smashed

PETALING JAYA: The son of a woman who died after being involved in an accident in Puchong said several men confronted his mother just before her death early yesterday morning.

Yew Yong Hon said he received a call around midnight from his mother Yek Yow Ngan, 51, who said her car rear windscreen had been smashed.

Hours later, he received another call from his mother saying that the front windscreen was smashed.

“After receiving the second call, I quickly rushed over from my house in Ampang with my girlfriend,” Yek said.

Yew claimed that when he arrived, his mother, a Nanyang Siang Pau employee, was surrounded by a group of men with parangs and iron rods at her house in Batu 8, Puchong.

“I got out of my car and yelled. They then fled,” he said.

Yew, tailed his mother, who was in her own car, to lodge a police report. However, along the way, they saw the group of men waiting by a car and motorcycle at the roadside.

Son’s sorrow: Yew mourning the death of his mother at the Kwong Tong funeral parlour yesterday evening. Offering their sympathies are state assemblyman for Kinrara Dr Kow Cheong Wei (centre) and Puchong MCA division chief Wong Hock Aun. Yek’s body was released for burial after a post mortem.

“My mother sped off and I reversed my car to go another way. The group split into two and chased us. That’s when my mother and I got separated,” he said.

Yew said he managed to shake off his pursuers.

He then found his mother's car in an accident with another vehicle at Taman Bintang, near Bandar Kinrara. He brought Yek to Assunta Hospital.

“However, the hospital demanded RM10,000 for my mother’s operation but I only had RM250 with me. They made us wait an hour before transferring her to Hospital Kuala Lumpur,” he claimed.

Yek died three hours after she was admitted to HKL.

Meanwhile, Assunta Hospital said a medical officer had immediately attended to Yew's mother.

It said Yek was comatose restless and had suffered a heart attack. She had to be resuscitated and intubated, and needed four pints of blood.

However, when Yek was being prepared to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, Yew asked about charges.

“Hospital staff counselled that the estimated final bill could be more than RM10,000 in view of the severity of her injuries.

“The patient's family then requested for the patient to be transferred to a government hospital,” said the hospital.

It said the patient had incurred a bill of RM1,900 but only RM250 was paid.

“Assunta Hospital carried all emergency and necessary care and treatment for the patient and did not deny treatment or demand a deposit be paid before treatment,” it said, adding that all facts and information had been forwarded to the Health Ministry.

When contacted, Subang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Zainal Rashid said police were unaware of the assault on Yek.

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