Materia Medica Malaysiana

Faber to bid for five hospitals

HOSPITAL services provider Faber Group Bhd is looking towards a tender of support services for five hospitals that are being built in its concession areas.
The group holds a concession to provide support services for 73 Government hospitals in the northern peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak.
After the concession was awarded, it is understood that for new hospitals, the Health Ministry will now make the awards based on open tender. Faber has a good chance of securing contracts for new hospitals in its concession areas where it has the advantage of logistics and economies of scale.
“We are trying to be as efficient and cost-effective as possible so that we will be competitive,” chairman Datuk Anwar Aji told newsmen after an AGM in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
The hospital services provided by the company are cleansing, laundry, clinical waste management, facility engineering management and bio-medical engineering maintenance.
This is the core business of the restructured Faber, which provided the group with an operating profit of RM60mil last year.