‘Filial support law can help address neglect of parents’


PETALING JAYA: As festivals approach, hospital staff, already burdened with daily responsibilities, brace themselves for a distressing yet familiar scenario – an influx of elderly individuals.

The nature of the emergency is not health but helplessness. There are heartless children who leave their parents at the hospital so that they could celebrate the occasion elsewhere without a care in the world.

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