Citizenship amendments will impact healthcare for stateless, says think tank
PETALING JAYA: The proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution’s citizenship provisions will increase risks and vulnerabilities in the nation’s health security, says Azrul Khalib.
The Galen Centre for Health & Social Policy chief executive was the latest to take aim at the amendments, which among others will require any person to register foundlings within one year to obtain their citizenship.
Foundlings are infants who are abandoned by their parents and later cared for by others.
Azrul said that stateless people are much less able to afford healthcare than citizens, especially as they and their caregivers must pay non-citizen fees at public hospitals for medical treatment, likely out of their own pockets.
“It is not likely that they would have health…
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