New private hospital for Kepala Batas

Star: INDIA’S Manipal Health Systems and Sri Arunanesh Sdn Bhd have agreed to set up a hospital in Kepala Batas, Penang.
Malaysia Nanban reported that the 200-bed hospital, which is expected to start operations by 2009, would be located near Kepala Batas town.
The hospital will offer a range of services, including general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics, cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.
Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said the hospital would also help to promote health tourism.
Manipal Education and Medical Group managing director Dr Ranjan Rai said the group had been educating doctors for the past 50 years.
He said they had access to a large pool of doctors working in some of the finest hospitals in the world.