Commonwealth Games gold medallist Saravanan battling motor neurone disease


PETALING JAYA: Former national race walker G. Saravanan, who once brought pride to the country by winning gold at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games, is now battling a chronic illness that has left him bedridden in hospital.

The 55-year-old is currently bedridden in hospital with motor neurone disease (MND), the same condition that afflicted the late football icon Mokhtar Dahari, fondly known as Super Mokh.

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