Over 2,100 senior citizens abandoned in Malaysia since 2018, Dewan Rakyat told


KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 2,144 senior citizens have been abandoned at hospitals across the country from 2018 till June this year.

According to the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, 914 of them – 656 men and 258 women – were successfully reunited with family members.

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