Nichinan to build KPJ medical centre

BT:MALAYSIA’S biggest private healthcare group, KPJ Healthcare Bhd, has signed a pact to manage a RM40 million medical centre in Johor, a project that will also incorporate some residential properties.
The first of its kind medical centre will be known as The Perling Specialist Hospital.
It will be built by property developer, Nichinan Corp (M) Sdn Bhd, within the Perling Healthcare Resort in Johor Baru. It would provide a range of medical and healthcare services within a residential resort setting.
The resort-style living cum healthcare facilities is targeted at the geriatric market, both locally and abroad.
Foreigners, especially those from Japan, will be encouraged to invest in the residential properties within the resort as their summer and weekend homes, availing themselves to the various medical facilities provided.
KPJ Johor Sdn Bhd, a unit of KPJ Healthcare, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Nichinan to provide technical and hospital management expertise.
Under the MOU, Nichinan will design, plan and build the 150,000 sq ft specialist hospital, while KPJ Healthcare will manage the centre’s operations.
These would include consultation clinics and other basic private specialist hospital services such as anaesthesiology, gynaecology, dermatology, cardiology, neurology, urology and ophthalmic expertise.
General manager, Hospital Commissioning of KPJ Healthcare, Aminuddin Dawam, said The Perling Specialist Hospital will be a one-stop medical facility catering to the surrounding local and foreign communities.
The 120-bed Specialist Hospital will also have a 1.22ha site within the resort.
In addition to an international-standard medical centre, the resort development includes 400 units of resort-style apartments complete with club house, swimming pool and lawn bowling.
KPJ Healthcare believes this collaboration is a strategic move for the group as it enables it to better tap the healthcare tourism sector, and new growth areas such as healthcare resort living.
In addition, the Perling Specialist Hospital will complement KPJ Healthcare’s existing facilities, namely the Johor Specialist Hospital, Puteri Specialist Hospital and Penawar Hospital.
Other facilities that will be provided by the medical centre include a 24-hour accident and emergency ward, complete with ambulance services, diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation and physiotherapy centres.
Aminuddin added that this partnership will help strengthen its position and grow the healthcare tourism sector in Malaysia.