Every day, Madam Tan Choon Lan takes six different kinds of medication and supplements, but she faces one major hurdle - she cannot read the labels that are written in English.
To get around this, she gets the pharmacist to explain the instructions in Mandarin, and writes them down when she gets home to make sure she remembers them.
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