Amanah lawmaker Mohamed Hanipa Maidin is set to undergo surgery at Hospital Kuala Lumpur after falling ill in Parliament earlier today.
Several concerned opposition leaders including Amanah president Mohamad Sabu, Amanah deputy president Sallehudin Ayub, PKR vice-president Shamsul Iskandar and former DAP lawmaker Ronnie Liu have gathered at the hospital.
On Twitter, several of Hanipa's colleagues in Parliament also wished him well.
"I have spoken to Hanipa's wife and pray that our friend Hanipa's will go through a safe surgery and heal quickly," said Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali, who is also Gombak MP.
PAS' Temerloh MP Nasrudin Hassan also took to Facebook, stating: "We pray that he will recover to his usual self".
Earlier, Hanipa was involved in a heated debate in the House.
He had allegedly suffered giddiness and hypertension and a senior medical doctor based at a clinic in Parliament decided to send him to HKL.
A parliamentarian said Dr B Sugumaran who treated Hanipa was worried the Sepang MP may suffer a stroke.
The incident happened around 5.30pm when PSM lawmaker Michael Jeyakumar mooted for the Companies Bill 2015 to be referred to the Select Committee.
Deputy speaker Ronald Kiandee, who chaired the sitting, then allowed a 15-minute break.
The MPs began to notice Hanipa who was slumped on the table while they were walking out.
"It was so obvious, everyone getting up during the break (except him).
"He just sat down and couldn't get up, (Klang MP) Charles Santiago and I went to ask him, and he wasn't responding, he slumped one way," said DAP's Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran.
"We talked to him and he wasn't responding. So we carried him out of his chair literally, and took him to the clinic."
Kulasegaran said Hanipa earlier told them that he felt like vomiting.
"Lucky we had the ambulance here. In 1964, we did not have the ambulance, the then speaker (Mohamed Noah Omar) died inside," he added. -Mkini
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