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Government hospital treatment costs more

By LOH FOON FONG

KUALA LUMPUR: Patients referr­ed from private hospitals to public hospitals are paying more for cancer treatment and drugs and they are not happy about this.

Patients are saying they were told to pay RM400 for medicine that only cost about one third to half in private hospitals.

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