KUALA LUMPUR, Aug
16 (Bernama) -- A conference will be held here to discuss the Islamic
perspective on Advance Medical Directive (AMD), which more countries
are adopting.
According to the director/senior fellow
of the Centre for Science and Environment Studies at the Institute of Islamic
Understanding Malaysia (IKIM), Dr Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen Shaikh Mohd Salleh,
AMD is a legal document on the will or instructions of a person on the
type of care he wants or the appointment of his representative, at a time when
he has lost cognitive ability to make a decision.
The instruction is in connection to the
patient’s autonomous choice to accept lifelong assistance if he suffers from
long-term serious illness and the chance of a cure is slim.
“There is increasing awareness of AMD
in our country even though there is no indication that it would be implemented
here in the near future. However, to prepare society towards that,
IKIM has taken the initiative to discuss this matter from an Islamic
perspective.
“The discussion is a pro-active step to
provide inputs to interested parties on an issue which needs attention if
AMD is implemented in our country,” he said when met at the Expert Conference
on”Framework of Guidelines on the Implementation of Advance Medical Directive
According to Fiqh and Islamic Bioethics” organised by IKIM together
with KPJ Healthcare Berhad today.
He said the outcome of the conference
would be documented, possibly in the form of a research report, and submitted
to the relevant authorities such as the Health Ministry and the Malaysian
Medical Council.
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BERNAMA
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