No clean bill of health for B40 due to financial woes


Most valuable asset: Families going for health check-ups at the Dharma Health carnival at SJKT Azad, Jln Kebun Bunga in George Town. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: A sense of disappointment hung over medical professionals running free health checks for mainly the B40 group at a health carnival here, and it is nothing new for them.

Once again, most of those who turned up showed signs they were dealing with at least one non-communicable disease.

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