By Annie Freeda Cruez THE National Heart Centre is well known at home and abroad for its treatment and management of heart diseases. ANNIE FREEDA CRUEZ finds out that it does much more than things involving the heart - it is also a specialist centre for lung diseases, surgeries and transplants.

By Nurrulmuna Mohd Ali FOR two weeks, 49-year-old teacher Susan Lagayan of Sandakan, Sabah, sacrificed her time to be with daughter Julsofia Evy, five, a heart patient at the National Heart Institute. "I came to know that she had a heart problem in February and was shocked," she said.