Health

A stroke of solemn awareness of a silent killer

Talk on Malaysia’s second leading cause of death touches a raw nerve

Christina Liew (in yellow): a growing awareness of a silent killer

Stroke is Malaysia’s second leading cause of death behind heart disease. There are 40,000 new victims every year. About 14,000 of them, slightly more than one-third, died. Such is the solemn and frightening picture painted by Christina Liew, Sabah’s tourism, culture and environment minister, at a Stroke Awareness Talk in Kota Kinabalu on Oct 21 to mark World Stroke Day.

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