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Diabetic's health improves under 'teamlet' care
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Mr George Then has seen his blood sugar level drop to a healthy level under the teamlet care programme with Dr Tricia Chang (seated) and care manager Evonne Oh.
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Mr George Then, 63, became diabetic in his 20s.
For the next 30 years, the senior chartering manager with a shipping firm was "bo chap" (couldn't care less in Hokkien) about the disease, taking medication when he felt like it and sometimes skipping it for days.
