UPDATE Malaysia
eng.angkasa.coop / December 2018
Coop-owned Hospital Helps Enliven Medical Tourism Industry in Malaysia By : NADIAH KAMARUDIN A total of USD727.2 million was spend by international tourists for medical purpose when visiting Malaysia in 2017. The number represented 3.7 percent of the total expenditure recorded in the same year, which came in at USD19.6 billion, thus putting “health treatment” as the fourth main purpose of visit by foreign visitors to the country.
» With Telipot Medical Centre, COOPUSMA has proven co-operatives are able to provide medical and health services to the general public.
Affordable, easily accessible and of world-class standards are a few of the contributing factors that have enabled Malaysia to top the list of the best medical tourism destinations in the world. Malaysia also has been awarded the Health and Medical Tourism Destination of the Year for three consecutive years (2015 – 2017) by the International Medical Travel Journal.
» Telipot Medical Centre offers 24- hour ambulance service
» Accident & Emergency (A&E) room
For Warga Universiti Sains Malaysia Kelantan Co-operative or better known as COOPUSMA, co-operatives should view the booming growth in the medical tourism industry as an opportunity that should be seized considering the number of co-op members in the ASEAN region only has reached more than 60 million. In June 2016, COOPUSMA created history by becoming the first co-operative in Malaysia to open a specialist hospital. Located just a 20-minute drive from Sultan Ismail Petra Airport, Kelantan, Telipot Medical Centre (TMC) offers
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