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Serdang Hospital Begins Operations In July

KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 (Bernama) -- The Serdang Hospital near here which has been completed at a cost of RM690 million, will begin operations in July, Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said.
He said the 620-bed hospital would be capable of catering to the needs of about 300,000 people from Bangi, Kajang, Puchong and Putrajaya and right up to parts of Negeri Sembilan.
The hospital, one of five planned to reduce congestion at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital(HKL), would begin its operations in stages, he said during a ceremony to mark the handing over of the hospital to his ministry by the Works Ministry at the hospital site, Thursday.
The other four are the Selayang and Putrajaya hospitals, which are already operating and the ones in Ampang and Sungai Buloh which are in the final stages of being handed over to the ministry.
Chua said his ministry had agreed to make the Serdang Hospital a referral centre for kidney ailments before specialising in cardiovascular and cardiothoracic diseases when it was fully operational later.
He said the other hospitals would also have their own areas of specialisation with the Putrajaya Hospital focussing on endocrinology and thyroid diseases, the Selayang Hospital for liver ailments, the Sungai Buloh Hospital for accident induced infections and the Ampang Hospital in immunology.
He did not expect the increase in the number of hospitals to result in a shortage of doctors or specialists.
Chua added that the new Serdang Hospital would not affect operations at the nearby Kajang Hospital which would continue to operate as normal