Cerebral palsy sufferer Siti Harisah dies

Star: SIK: Siti Harisah Azizan, who suffered from cerebral palsy for the last 23 years and was paralysed for the last four years, passed away at Sik Hospital yesterday.
She was taken to the hospital at 9am yesterday as she was suffering from high fever.
Her brother-in-law Zanudin Arafadin said Siti Harisah, 23, was just about to be admitted into the ward when she died at 1.30pm yesterday.
The Star had on April 12 highlighted her plight and donors had chipped in to help her.
Her mother Robiah Salleh said Siti Harisah had been admitted to Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) in Cheras for further check-ups but she took her home last Thursday.
Siti Harisah had been admitted to HUKM on April 19 after consultants there offered to analyse her disease and recommend treatment for her.
But Robiah asked to take her daughter back to Sik after she underwent gentle physical therapy.
When they arrived home on Friday, Siti Harisah came down with high fever.
She was taken to Sik Hospital yesterday morning.
Robiah, who was with Siti Harisah when she died, said her daughter passed away peacefully while receiving medication.
Siti Harisah, who was palsied and disabled since she was a baby, became totally paralysed in 2002.
From then on, her condition worsened with her bones becoming totally deformed.
Siti Harisah was buried at the Sik Muslim Cemetery near her home in Kampung Mandoi last night.