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A Construction worker at a site in Bukit Jalil.AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

RECENTLY, I was called to attend to a patient who had been left in the hospital hallway over the weekend.

His employer refused to pay for his treatment and he had been waiting for three days for his friends to raise the RM2,000 deposit required for admission into the orthopaedics ward.

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