– Sunway Medical Centre continues to uphold quality patientcentric care while serving the needs of its community.
A hospital is a place where people should feel safe and trusted that their well-being is prioritised and taken care of. Sunway Medical Centre continues to uphold quality patient-centric care while serving the needs of its community.
This year, the hospital played an active role towards building a safer Malaysia and reopening of our country’s economy during a pandemic. As part of the hospital’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives and in support of the COVID-19 National Immunisation Programme since Phase 1 started in March, Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City has administered more than 350,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to frontliners, senior citizens, adolescents and the general public to date.
In this new endemic normal, face masks have become an essential item and Sunway Medical Centre recognised the need to support the underprivileged, especially the urban poor, B40 groups and refugee community. The hospital donated over 10,000 boxes of 3-ply and KN95 masks to 16 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and local councils (ADUNs), which includes Malaysia Red Crescent Society (MRSM), Yayasan Sin Chew, Dignity Foundation for Children, Refuge for the Refugees, Majlis Bandaraya Subang Jaya, ADUN Subang Jaya and DUN Kinrara.
To help ease the burdens of public healthcare system during the height of COVID-19, Sunway Medical Centre supports the Ministry of Health (MoH) through a decanting programme for non-COVID patients from 10 public hospitals.
To date, more than 200 patients have been referred to the hospital through this partnership. The hospital remains dedicated to contributing to those in need and has successfully performed paediatric cardiac surgeries on babies as young as one-month-old through a collaboration with Media Prima – NSTP Humanitarian Fund. Sunway Medical Centre has also bettered lives through living-donor kidney transplant and providing cancer patients access to treatments they need at a special rate.
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) CEO Mahadhir Aziz says a few local startups are strong enough to become the next unicorns and are already considered as ‘minicorns’.
“We’re certain that more startups are set to become the next Malaysian unicorn, following Carsome. Our DroneTech champion Aerodyne is making waves internationally, and along with the likes of edotco, SoCar, iPrice, and StoreHub are often considered ‘minicorns’.
MY AMCHAM CARES is a core AMCHAM program that celebrates and promotes best practices within the corporate citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs implemented by our members.
It is a platform through which members can share achievements and experiences that are meaningful to them, and support one another on more technical aspects of implementing and governing CSR programs, in order to achieve the highest standards and greatest impact through their environmental, social and governance initiatives.
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AMCHAM today held a briefing on global minimum tax and how it impacts businesses in Malaysia. This session was conducted by Tan Hooi Beng, Partner International Tax Services Deputy Managing Director of Deloitte; Kelvin Yee, Director of International Tax Services, Deloitte; Thomas Chan, Senior Manager of Deloitte Asia Pacific International Core of Excellence; and Krystal Ng, Partner, Wong & Partners, a member firm of Baker McKenzie International.
Our group of expert speakers discussed in detail the global minimum tax – why it was introduced, key elements, its business impact, what has changed since June 2021, and more. This interactive session featured polls to determine the audiences’ understanding of the subject matter and helped guide the speakers’ input during the Q&A portion.
Mergers & acquisitions (“M&A”) exercises are part of a business strategy whereby two companies consolidate to become one entity (in case of a merger) or one company (or individual) purchases assets of or shares in, another company (in case of acquisition). Although the COVID-19 pandemic has strongly disrupted Malaysia’s economic environment, the long-term effects of this economic disruption on M&A activities remain unclear. In the short term, M&A activities have fallen markedly since the pandemic, with only 47 deals valued at US$4.3 billion taking place in 2020, compared to 52 deals valued at US$5.7 billion in 2019. Foreign investors may likely be dissuaded by the hampering of consumer spending as a result of Malaysia’s weakening economy.
It’s MY AMCHAM CARES’ fifth anniversary! This year AMCHAM recognized 44 of our member companies for their model approach to corporate citizenship during a Thanksgiving Luncheon hosted by Hilton Kuala Lumpur yesterday (24 Nov, 2021).
Engagement for the survey was fantastic with 50% of our member companies participating, the most ever! AMCHAM is honored to have had H.E. Brian McFeeters, the U.S Ambassador to Malaysia, celebrate this achievement with the Chamber and esteemed recipients.
If you’re a member of AMCHAM and would like to participate in the MY AMCHAM CARES program, please drop us an email at [email protected]
Congratulations to all recipients!
