KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 23, 2013): Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Najib Abdul Razak today launched the first Permata Children's
Specialist Hospital project at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Medical Centre in Cheras.
The project involves establishing by 2017 a RM606-million modern and high-technology hospital that focuses comprehensively on paediatrics.
In launching the project, Najib said treatment in various fields would be offered, including laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery; cardiology and cardiothoracic services; paediatric genomic medicine and paediatric endocrinology.
He said construction of the children's specialist hospital and a Women and Children's Hospital now being built at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital showed that the country's health service was on track to be in the league of that in developed nations.
The project involves establishing by 2017 a RM606-million modern and high-technology hospital that focuses comprehensively on paediatrics.
In launching the project, Najib said treatment in various fields would be offered, including laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery; cardiology and cardiothoracic services; paediatric genomic medicine and paediatric endocrinology.
He said construction of the children's specialist hospital and a Women and Children's Hospital now being built at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital showed that the country's health service was on track to be in the league of that in developed nations.
