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Since its establishment, KPJ has pursued a consistent strategy of identifying new growth areas and investing its funds to develop greater capacity and capability to serve more patients.

Having established the platform to deliver significant shareholder value, KPJ aims to drive ahead with its aggressive business strategies and further strengthen its foundation for sustainable growth by pursuing rapid organic expansion, as well as acquisitions and targeting new markets.

Strengthening Market Position via Organic Growth

Organic growth opportunities continue to be realised in fscal year 2010 through the opening of KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital in Kuala Lumpur and physical expansion at existing hospitals.

Four years of planning and development culminated in KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital’s soft opening on 19 July 2010, with former KPJ Chairman, Tan Sri Muhammad Ali Hashim, cutting the red ribbon as a symbolic gesture to declare the facility open.

Under the frst phase of its development, the new 220-bedded hospital opened with 163 beds and 36 Medical Consultants offering services ranging from Internal Medicine and General Surgery to Obstetrics to Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Cardiology and Orthopaedic Surgery, to name a few. More beds, facilities and services will gradually be added over the next few years.

Built at a cost of RM135 million, KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital is designed to meet growing demand and to overcome the physical limitations of the old Tawakal Hospital building, which impeded further capacity enhancement.

New facilities such as the new RM2-million digital operating theatre with a dedicated navigation system for knee and joint replacement surgery transformed KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital into a multi-disciplinary tertiary care hospital and a centre of excellence for orthopaedic services.

With demand surpassing capacity at some of its hospitals, KPJ also stepped up efforts to boost capacity by expanding its existing hospitals.

Among them is the construction of a new annex block at KPJ Johor Specialist Hospital in Johor Bahru, to house a new 50-bedded Premier Ward, 10 additional outpatient clinics, a cardiac operating theatre complex, an additional bunker for radiotherapy, and a 130-bay 5-storey car park.

Elsewhere, facilities and services were upgraded to provide more convenience and greater comfort to patients.

KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital opened its newly upgraded and refurbished Radiotherapy Centre on 2 May 2010 to complement its Oncology Day Care Suite, which was opened on 5 September 2009.