KOTA KINABALU, Oct. 3 -- Sabah patients using the Ubat Melalui Pos (UMP) service no longer have to pay the RM12.50 delivery charge from October 1 removing a cost that was more than twice the RM5.70 previously charged in Peninsular Malaysia.

Particularly meaningful in Sabah, where patients from rural and interior areas have to travel considerable distances simply to collect repeat medication from hospitals or health clinics.

About 87,000 registered UMP patients nationwide are expected to benefit from the free delivery initiative.

Communications Minister Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil said the Government would bear the delivery cost beginning October 1, with an initial RM5 million allocation considered through the Malaysian Communications and M...