Hospital fees 'injurious' to foreign workers

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Thirteen NGOs have come together to flay the Health Ministry for introducing a new hospital fees schedule for foreign workers and refugees that they say “jeopardises their healthcare and inevitably risks the spread of diseases in Malaysia”.

Citing a recent case where a two-year-old Rohingya baby was refused treatment by a Terengganu hospital because the parents could not pay the deposit, they said the new fees schedule had to be condemned.

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