KPJ Healthcare not keen on buying Fomema

KPJ Healthcare Bhd, the largest operator of private hospitals in Malaysia, will remain focused on its healthcare business and not look to pick up Government concession businesses. Its managing director Datin Paduka Siti Sa'diah Sheikh Bakir said the company has no plans to buy foreign worker health check company Fomema Sdn Bhd from its rival Pantai Holdings Bhd. "We have been a very focused healthcare company and this focus has been our critical success factor that has allowed us to grow," she told Business Times. Last Friday, Business Times had quoted sources as saying that healthcare group Pantai Holdings was looking to sell its Malaysian Government concession businesses, Pantai Medivest Sdn Bhd and Fomema, to focus on growing its hospital business. (BT)