KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 — National industry leader BP Healthcare Group and Old Putera Association (OPA), the alumni of Royal Military College, have signed an agreement aimed at providing affordable treatment to its members.

OPA members and their immediate families will receive special rates for healthcare services at all BP Healthcare outlets throughout the country under a Memorandum of Understanding inked at the OPA premise in Saujana Resort near here today.

“The key is to ensure that the alumni members and their families will have access to affordable healthcare which is a growing concern for many of them, especially those who are quite elderly,” said Mr Chevy Beh, BP Healthcare Group Managing Director.

“We will assist in whatever way we can to ensure they get to enjoy the wide range of services available within the BP Healthcare Group; that includes getting medical advice via tele-conferencing and home delivery of medication for those can no longer drive or find it inconvenient to leave their homes.”

OPA president Tan Sri Dr Salleh Mohd Nor signed the MoU at the ceremony attended by alumni members and former Olympian Datuk Shaharuddin Mohd Ali.

BP Healthcare is the first medical laboratory in Asia to be accredited by the US-based Joint Commission International, the global leader in accrediting healthcare organisations, and was also recognised as the Health Screening Company of the Year by Frost and Sullivan at its 2013 Malaysia Excellence Awards.

With over 100 outlets spanning every state in Malaysia, it is the country’s biggest healthcare group in diagnostics and imaging, laboratory, pharmacy, dental, food, environmental testing, hearing and medical technologies.

Its comprehensive range of medical services includes its flagship Head2Toe health screening, and also advanced diagnostic testing such as colour Doppler imaging, digitised X-ray, mammogram, stress test, CT scan, ENT (ear, nose and throat), dental, hearing and ultrasound tests.

BP Heatlhcare has over 70 laboratories, 50 pharmacies and dispensaries, 50 hearing aid centres, 50 food and industrial testing centres, five daycare/specialist centres, three dental specialist clinics and one eye specialist clinic.

Over 70 per cent of its staff are medical professionals ranging from radiologists, surgeons, ENT specialists, hepatologists, physicians, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, audiologists, dentists, pharmacists and nutritionists. — Bernama