Hospitals set to register core net profit growth

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PETALING JAYA: Pent-up demand and return of foreign patients will partially offset the declining Covid-19 revenues that Asean hospitals are facing.

The return of foreign patients will be more meaningful in the second half of this year, but it would take a few years before foreign patient revenues reached the pre-Covid-19 levels.