Health

A doctor’s perspective

MALAYSIA has no official definition for rare diseases.

However, according to University Malaya Medical Centre consultant paediatrician and clinical geneticist Prof Dr Thong Meow Keong, the unofficial working definition is diseases that strike less than one in 4,000 people in the population.

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