The son of philanthropist Anita Chan Lai-ling is suing Hong Kong Adventist Hospital and two doctors over her death, which happened a week after her discharge from the Happy Valley hospital in 2007.
Chan, the widow of philanthropic educator Chan Shu-kui, died on October 17, 2007 from a fentanyl overdose, according to an inquest into her death that opened last November. The inquest has been adjourned for almost a year and is due to resume on November 25.
An earlier writ, by a different party, alleged that Chan (pictured) had been pressed to sign accumulator contracts by a banker in the two days before she died.
In the new writ, which was filed at the Court of First Instance on Friday, her eldest son, Anson Chan, 47, is suing the hospital, Dr Yau Yat-yin, Dr Richard Kay Li-chi and the Seventh-Day Adventist Corporation (HK), for loss and damages.
Anson Chan alleges in the writ that the defendants had failed to warn her in a timely manner of the mood- and mind-altering properties of fentanyl patches - painkillers prescribed by doctors.
During the inquest, the court was told that fentanyl patches contained dangerous drugs.
