Time to focus on Malaysian healthcare travellers amid the pandemic


Domestic healthcare travellers could be the antidote for the post-pandemic recovery of Malaysia’s medical tourism sector.

No diagnosis of any disease could ever come at a good time. But when Tiffany Yang’s mother was diagnosed with cancer last year, the news truly came at a really, really bad time.

The coronavirus had hit Malaysian shores by then and the country was going into its first movement control order phase. Almost overnight, Yang – who lives in Taiping, Perak with her family – found her mother’s treatment options curtailed by travel restrictions.

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