Hospitals send SMS updates on patients to relatives

NATIONAL sepak takraw team coach Salleh Nanang, 42, was taken aback when amid work, he received a short text message on his mobile phone – from his mother’s doctor. 

It told him that Maimon Jonit, 61, was doing better at the medical intensive care unit in National University Hospital (NUH), where she had been admitted with breathing difficulties and heart problems.