Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, dies at age 100. Her family confirms she dies after she is admitted to the National Heart Institute, with sources reporting she passes away around 9.20am on 28 September. The cause of death is described as unclear.
She is widely noted as one of Malaysia’s earliest Malay women doctors and has a career spanning medicine, public health and social work. She is born on 12 July 1926 and studies medicine at King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore, graduating in 1955. The two outlets align on the basic facts of her death, including timing, location, her age and the hospital admission, while differing only in the level of detail provided on her biography and the reported circumstances surrounding her final illness.
