IPOH: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) has set its sights on building a specialist training hospital near its campus in Kampar this year.
MCA secretary-general Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan said the university was in the midst of discussions with the Government on the RM300mil project.
“If all goes well, we will proceed to raise funds for the project and commence construction this year itself,” he said at his Chinese New Year open house here on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, UTAR council chairman Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik announced that the proposed 300-bed hospital would offer treatment using traditional Chinese medicine as well as Western or conventional medicine.
The hospital is to be named after the late Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, who donated the land for the hospital.
Ong, who is also a council member of UTAR, said that since the university had a medical faculty with 50 final-year students but no teaching hospital, its students had to do their housemanship at government hospitals.
“The setting up of the training hospital will not only benefit our students, but it will also be a main hospital for the northern region.
“It will ease the volume of patients at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh and Penang Hospital, and be more convenient for patients as they will not have to travel all the way to Kuala Lumpur for treatment (by specialists),” he said.
Source: The Star
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