18 get haircuts in support of hospital’s cancer fund

Gesture of solidarity: Yeap (in red mask) gazing at herself in the mirror as her long hair, which she had kept for more than a year, is cut for a good cause at a salon along Karpal Singh Drive in Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: A cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy not only has to suffer health side effects, but also hair loss.

To show her support for patients fighting cancer, arts and craft teacher Yeap Poh Looi, 43, turned up at a salon in Karpal Singh Drive to donate her locks.