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Gleneagles Medical Centre
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Gleneagles Medical Centre along
Pangkor Road in George Town is one of the earliest private hospitals in
Penang. The idea of founding it came about from a group of businessmen,
namely the late Tan Sri Dato' Loh Boon Siew, Dato' Tan Kim Yeow, Choong Eng
Kim, Dato' Yeap Hock Hoe, Tuan Hajee Mayen Abubacker and Dr R.N. Pannikar,
who persuaded several senior and highly reputable consultants of the
Penang
General Hospital to establish a private medical centre.
Despite some hesitation and fear,
the doctors consented. Initially, the medical centre was to be known as
Cantonment Medical Specialist Centre. The company was incorporated on 12
February 1971. |
It was to be sited on a plot of
land at the junction of Cantonment Road and Bell Road. Unfortunately the
building in which it was to be housed was razed in a fire. After the
incident, the team decided upon a 2.5 acre piece of land on Pangkor Road.
Constructed began in May 1972, and the hospital opened on 1 July, 1973,
under the name of Penang Medical Centre, or PMC. The original building was
three storeys high, and had 70 beds. It provided a wide range of medical
services and had two operating theatres.
Since its opening, the hospital had expanded several times, with more storey
added to the original structure. In 1989, it changed its name to Gleneagles
Medical Centre, when Gleneagles International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Parkway Holdings became the majority shareowner of the company.
In recent decade, the hospital has received an increased number of patients
from Indonesia, particularly from Medan. To cater to the special needs of
patients from Indonesia, it opened a representative office in Medan.
Updates
3 February 2013: Gleneagles embarked on an expansion program in 2011 with
the construction of a new 19-storey annex which was completed in February,
2013. The new building adds another 600 car parking bays to the hospital and
increased the consultation rooms for outpatient treatment to eighty.
Getting there
Rapid Penang Bus 103 pass along Pangkor Road. There is one bus stop on the
Sri Pangkor side of Pangkor Road.
Sources: http://www.penang-traveltips.com/gleneagles-medical-centre.htm
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