Biometric boost to health checks


GEORGE TOWN: Fomema Sdn Bhd plans to equip panel clinics with biometric readers to ascertain identities as part of initiatives to improve the mandatory health screening of foreign workers.

Fomema president and CEO Mohd Hatar Ismail said the fingerprint scanning system would be linked to the Immigration Depart­ment database.

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