Thankful for the help: Hembali showing his Anjung Kasih room where he has been staying for almost a month at the Penang Hospital. Below: Other Anjung Kasih rooms available at the hospital.
GEORGE TOWN: Septuagenarian Hembali Shafie and his wife would have spent nearly RM3,000 a month on a hotel room just so that they could care for their son at the Penang Hospital if it wasn’t for Anjung Kasih, a visitors’ wing within the hospital.
The 71-year-old retiree from Muar, Johor, said they had earlier forked out about RM500 to rent a room at a hotel for five days before getting a bed at the hospital’s free-of-charge boarding facilities.
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