MPs query Petronas' 5-star hospital

sun2surf - [...] National petroleum company Petronas was again attacked by MPs during question time in the Dewan Rakyat (Parliament) today when they queried its five-star Prince Court Medical Centre (PCMC) in the city centre.

Azmin Ali (PKR-Gombak) asked the Prime Minister the rationale for Petronas to venture into private hospital services given the many private medical centres in the country.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Amirsham A. Aziz said Petronas' venture into the health sector was done after considering the commercial returns.

"It is also part of Petronas' initiative to meet its corporate social responsibility (CSR), in line with its corporate mission to contribute towards the people and country's prosperity.

"The setting-up of PCMC is also to complement the government's efforts to provide medical service in line with its health tourism programme," he said, adding PCMC offered world-class health service to Malaysians.

It also provides specialist services in critical diseases such as cancer (oncology), heart and lung, women and children, urology, nephrology and men’s health and plastic surgery, cosmotology, dermatology and burns.

"PCMC is the only private hospital in the country equipped with hyperbaric chamber equipment that provided quick recovery in the treatment of fire victims," Amirsham said.... selanjutnya.