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Patience is a virtue: Patients at University Malaya Medical Centre waiting for their numbers to be called. — LOW BOON TAT/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Five hours – that is the amount of time sometimes spent by a 69-year-old retiree during her monthly medical check-ups at a public hospital.

Aminah, not her real name, who has several chronic illnesses, including heart and kidney failure, said oftentimes, she would get hypoglycaemia (abnormally low level of glucose in her blood) as a result of the long wait.

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