MALACCA: Fourteen inmates from the Machap Umboo Detention Centre, which houses illegal immigrants pending deportation, were admitted to Malacca Hospital on Thursday night for medical observation after an Indonesian came down with meningitis.
Deputy Hospital Director Dr Khalid Kassim said they had to be admitted as they had close contact with the Indonesian, who was warded at the hospital a few days earlier.
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