What a ‘great dame’ of a hospital


Transformation efforts: The seven-storey Specialist Complex and Ambulatory Care Centre began operating in 2013 to better serve patients. — AZMAN GHANI / The Star.

IT has been fondly dubbed as the “grand old lady” of hospitals in Malaysia.

But the Health Ministry’s largest hospital, Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), is far from outliving its glory days, despite being Malaysia’s oldest hospital at 146 years old.

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