PUTRAJAYA – The National Unity Ministry, with the cooperation of the Housing and Local Government Ministry, will provide financial assistance of RM1 million for funeral arrangements of non-Muslim Malaysians at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital One-Stop Centre (Pusara HKL).
The ministry said RM500,000 of the allocation will be provided under the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit and the remaining under the Kg Baru Development Programme for funeral arrangements of non-Muslim bodies.
“This assistance is to ease the financial burden of the next-of-kin of the B40s,” it said in a statement here today.
According to the ministry, financial constraints of families and a shortage of human resources are among the reasons for delays in funeral arrangements.
These were some of the factors found from surveys and feedback received by the ministry when National Unity Minister Datuk Halimah Mohamed Sadique visited Pusara HKL last Thursday. – Bernama, August 7, 2021
