KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, the pioneering Malaysian physician and wife of the country’s longest-serving former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, died on Monday, September 28, at the age of 100.

She passed away at the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Kuala Lumpur, according to Malaysian state news agency Bernama. Her death was confirmed by her son, Tan Sri Mokhzani Mahathir.

Born on July 12, 1926, in Klang, Selangor, Siti Hasmah was among the pioneering Malay women in the medical profession. She became the first Malay woman to be offered a place to study medicine at the King........

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