Foreigners to pay medical treatment in full by 2017


FOREIGNERS will have to pay the full cost of medical treatment at government hospitals and clinics by 2017, says Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam.

He said this was following the Cabinet’s decision to remove the medical subsidy given to foreigners in phases beginning January.

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