MEDICAL tourism in Malaysia was doing so well, netting RM1.7bil in revenue in 2019, and was projected by the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) to hit RM2.8bil in 2020.
But that projection was made in 2018, well before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the globe and economies of countries worldwide were wrecked by the actions taken by their respective governments to contain the spread of the disease.
