Hep C patient left in the lurch


KUALA LUMPUR: A patient who is on Hepatitis C treatment has to stop his treatment after the allocated 2,000 treatments for this year ran out.

The self-employed patient, who wanted to be known as Zack, 38, said the hospital he went to had run out of stock of the medicine and his treatment will resume once stock is available.

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