The Straits Times | G Tay
Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) saw a 50 per cent rise in patients being abandoned over three years, with the 239 cases in 2020 rising to 358 cases in 2023. In the first five months of 2024, around 166 abandoned cases were recorded in HKL, local media reported. Some 50 per cent of the cases involved patients above the age of 60, with the remainder being younger patients with medical complications. A majority of the patients said they did not have relatives, HKL Social Work Department chief Zulhan Ambi told The Star.