High quality service at Sabah KPJ helps boost state's health-tourism sector - CM

Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal 

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 8 (Bernama) – The high quality medical services  at the Sabah KPJ Specialist Hospital is able to boost the state's health tourism, Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said today.

He said services provided by the Radiotherapy and Oncology Centre at  the hospital not only benefited the people in the state, especially cancer patients, but also attracted patients from abroad.

“I am very confident that the setting up of this centre will help to provide better quality service in addressing cancer-related illnesses, where the number of cases in reported to be increasing in Sabah.

“It (Radiotherapy and Oncology Center) also attracts more patients from abroad, especially Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and China," he said at the opening of the centre here today.

The text of Mohd Shafie’s speech was read out by the State Secretary,  Datuk Hashim Paijan.

According to  Mohd Shafie, the centre, the first to be set up by a private hospital in the state, will further enhance the healthcare landscape not only in Sabah, but also in the region.

Meanwhile, KPJ Healthcare Bhd president and managing director,  Datuk Amiruddin Abdul Satar said the centre was set up at a cost of RM13 million and began operation in May last year.

-- BERNAMA