KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 -- A health and social policy think tank has expressed concerns that the proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution's citizenship provisions will worsen the healthcare situation for the stateless and their children, exposing them to increased health security risk and vulnerabilities.

Galen Centre for Health & Social Policy chief executive Azrul Mohd Khalib said the proposed amendments, if passed, will remove the existing citizenship rights for stateless people.

He said the amendments will cause harm, exacerbate suffering, and widen the health disparity and inequity gap amongst those already vulnerable, where most would be infants.

"In many countries, the stateless are automatically stripped of the capacity t...