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Thursday January 25, 2007

Tests proposed for ‘beading woman’

MALACCA: Two doctors and two state assemblymen visited a 23-year-old woman who is said to be producing colourful crystal-like beads from her big toenail at her home in Durian Tunggal near here yesterday.

After deputy health director Dr Ghazali Othman examined Siti Suhana Saadon’s toe, Dr Irmi Zarina Ismail, a family medicine specialist from a Durian Tunggal clinic, proposed that the girl be warded for tests in a hospital.

Siti Suhana has been reported to have been removing the beads from her toenail since last October.

State Women's Affairs, Community Welfare and Unity Committee chairman Datuk Ramlah Abas said the state executive councillors' meeting yesterday decided to bear the cost of Siti Suhana's stay in the state government-owned Putra Specialists Hospital for three days.

Ramlah made the proposal to Siti Suhana and her mother Kamariah Komeng, 52, a rubber tapper, at their home yesterday.

“This is to enable doctors to carry out tests and chemical analysis to find out more about the objects,” Ramlah said.

Siti Suhana’s brother Rahmat Saadon and another relative, Julinie Engkeh, 29, said the family would consider the proposal.

The oval-shaped, hard beads are kept in plastic containers for visitors to view.

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