Doctors and concern groups in Hong Kong are calling for heightened awareness of the mental state of patients suffering from a rare and incurable neurological disease as a local survey found close to 30 per cent of patients had experienced suicidal thoughts.
The survey conducted by the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Neuromuscular Disease Association from April to May revealed that 9.4 per cent of the 106 interviewed multiple sclerosis patients had tried to kill themselves in the past....
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