The Healthcare Work Culture Improvement Task Force’s findings on the death of a house officer at Penang Hospital are a cover-up to safeguard the interest and the image of the Health Ministry and its institutions, claims NGO My Patriot Penang.

Its chairperson R Kalidas said, despite the task force finding no conclusive link between the officer’s death and a toxic workplace, it was an open secret that bullying and discrimination against house officers are rife in the Penang Hospital

He said it had been an issue for...