A hard life for senior citizens


WHILE your reader from Butter­worth finds price hikes “suffocating” “Don’t burden us with price hikes” (The Star, March 24), I have found it, besides being suffocating, also choking and strangling. A lot of seniors like me are being suffocated or choked to a slow and possibly painful death.

With limited savings and no pension, life is a daily struggle. The government hospital treating me has restricted my supply of medicine to a three-month period. It will also require me either to collect the medicines at the end of the third month or pay PosLaju to have them delivered.

Limited time offer:
Just RM5 per month.

Monthly Plan

RM13.90/month
RM5/month

Billed as RM5/month for the 1st 6 months then RM13.90 thereafters.

Annual Plan

RM12.33/month

Billed as RM148.00/year

1 month

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