This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on February 18, 2016.

IPOH: Ipoh Barat member of parliament M Kula Segaran has lodged a missing person report on the disappearance of Dr B Sugumaran, a senior medical officer based in a clinic in Parliament, after he failed to report for duty for more than a month.

He said lawmakers were concerned about the absence of the popular 50-year-old doctor, who served in the designated clinic in Parliament grounds, especially during meetings.

“The Parliament clinic staff said Dr Sugumaran had not stepped into the office since January this year.

“I have also tried contacting his friends and relatives to no avail.

“He is a bachelor with parents past 80 years old and they have yet to lodge a report, therefore I decided to do it.

“He is also my personal doctor and I hope police will be able to trace his whereabouts,” Kula said at the Ipoh district police station yesterday afternoon.

He said he had asked Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S Subramaniam about Dr Sugumaran’s absence and was told that it would be looked into.

“I did not get any response after that, which is why I have lodged a police report,” said Kula.

Kula said Dr Sugumaran, whose address is in Taman Sri Rampai, Kuala Lumpur, had once served at the Ipoh General Hospital and is stationed at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

The doctor had been in the civil service for the past 23 years. — The Malaysian Insider