KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has been urged to expedite access to a new drug therapy to treat those affected by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), especially children, said founder of NGO WeCareJourney Yap Sook Yee.
Yee said that SMA is a progressive muscle wasting disease and one of the top genetic killer of babies below the age of two years old.
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