PETALING JAYA: An NGO wants the Government to base medical assistants or doctors in orang asli or natives’ villages, just as the British did in colonial times.
Kelantan Orang Asli Network deputy chairman Arom Asir said the late Dr J. Malcolm Bolton, the first Department of Aborigines medical director who developed a comprehensive medical service for the indigenous minorities of Malaya (peninsular Malaysia) from 1955 during the “Emergency” until 1972, had stationed two hospital assistants in each orang asli post.
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