75-year-old denied papers to travel to Miri for medical treatment
Agnes Padan shows the lump on Purait Arun's arm. – The Malaysian Insight pic, April 16, 2023.
FOR 10 years, a former pastor has been waiting for a medical explanation for a large lump he has on his upper left arm. Purait Arun, a 75 year-old ethnic Murut from the village of Batu Mulong, Ba Kelalan in Sarawak’s most northern district of Lawas, cannot get to the nearest medical facility that can do the test – the Miri hospital 258km away – as he does not have a valid identity card.
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