Malaysian father writes book in hospital ward while accompanying sick child


Zephanie with her father's book. Photo: JK Joseph

When JK Joseph’s six-year-old daughter Zephanie was hospitalised during the first movement control order, he wrote a book while staying with her at the hospital.

Joseph, 58, and his wife, Eunice Teo, 45, who are from Melaka, spent three months with their daughter at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

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