Treating diabetes a costly affair

By LOH FOON FONG
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  • Monday, 14 Nov 2016

KUALA LUMPUR: When not taken care of from young, diabetes and lifestyle diseases that hit many at mid-life could impoverish families.

A patient who wants to be known only as Dolah, 54, said it costs him RM2,000 a month to treat his diabetes, hypertension, nerves, high cholesterol and gout.

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