Medical tourism as green bubble precursor to reopening borders, says private hospitals association

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PETALING JAYA: The green bubble concept for the medical tourism sector should be created as a precursor to the opening of borders to foreign tourists, said Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh.

"Green bubbles for medical tourists are safe and regulated. They could be the first to start before the reopening of the tourism sector," the Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia president said during the virtual National Recovery Summit on Thursday ."This can be seen from neighbouring countries which have placed emphasis on the sector," he added.

Meanwhile, the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers proposed that there should be uniform standard operating procedures for all economic sectors to reopen."Approval letters should also be done away with but based on vaccination rate and reliance on digital vaccination certification. There should also be a standard SOP," its president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai said.

He noted that feasible government policies should also be in sync with the needs of the private sector. "For example, the manufacturing sector saw positive growth of 3% for the first quarter of 2020 and continued to grow to 6% in the same period this year. He said that cases of infections were brought into the workplace and factories rather than originating from them as clusters.

He said this includes the use of locally manufactured tracking devices for non-life threatening Covid-19 patients who are placed under home quarantine.

 

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