Manipal Health Enterprises, the healthcare arm of the Manipal Education and Medical Group, announced the acquisition of a 70-bed hospital in Klang, Selangor District of Malaysia. This acquisition by Manipal Hospitals also includes a new 200-bed tertiary care hospital which is presently under construction in a nearby location, which will be commissioned by last quarter of the financial year 2014-15. The facility is being implemented in accordance with the Malaysian healthcare guidelines, MSQHA and also JCI.
The hospital will focus on a healthy combination of wellness, prevention and curative care (secondary and tertiary) levels – for both the domestic and an emerging overseas patient traffic into Malaysia from neighboring countries.
According to Swaminathan Dandapani – Executive Chairman of Manipal Health Enterprises, “This acquisition is a part of the company’s evolving strategy to expand its footprint in India and in identified countries of Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. In the near term, significant capacities will be created to add on to the present group capacity of 15 hospitals, 5000 beds and a patient traffic of about two million annually.”
According to Rajen Padukone – CEO and MD of Manipal Health Enterprises, “Manipal is a well-established name in Malaysia, with over 25 per cent of the doctors in the country being Alumini of the Manipal University. The access to this pool of talent, trained in India at Manipal University and at Melaka, has been a key driver for Manipal to venture into setting up hospitals in Malaysia. The existing employees and doctors would continue to be engaged with the hospital in Malaysia. Dr Poravi will continue to provide help and guidance as required to the new dispensation. Ramkumar Akeila will be leading the operations as CEO and MD”.
The Manipal group already has two campuses in Malaysia- a medical school at Melaka since 2001 and a newly formed (in 2012) Malaysia International University at Nilai, Kuala Lumpur.
EH News Bureau
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