Soldiers scarred by antimalarial drugs to receive health check

Katie Burgess
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:57am, first published July 22 2019 - 12:00am

Australian Defence Force personnel who were part of a controversial antimalarial drug trial will receive a free health check, despite a Senate inquiry refusing to draw a definitive link between the drugs and their severe psychiatric symptoms.

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Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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