Sunway Medical Centre retains top spot in Paediatrics in Malaysia
Last week, Sunway Medical Centre (SMC), the flagship quaternary hospital under the Sunway Healthcare Group, retained its top spot for Paediatrics in Malaysia in the Best Specialized Hospitals Asia Pacific Newsweek 2024 rankings. SMC was also ranked 26th for Pediatrics within the Asian Pacific region.
The hospital was also ranked in the top 75 hospitals in the APAC region, in addition to improving its rankings in Oncology, Neurology and Cardiology categories.
“We are pleased that our Paediatrics is recognised regionally, as Sunway Medical Centre operates the country’s first dedicated Children’s Emergency Department among private hospitals, which has received over 22,000 patient visits since 2023. This one-stop centre that caters to the healthcare needs of infants, children, and adolescents is supported by 45 paediatricians in 24 paediatric subspecialties” – Dato’ Lau Beng Long, President of Sunway Healthcare Group.
The Best Specialized Hospitals Asia Pacific 2024 ranking, which seeks to identify the best public, teaching/academic, and private hospitals in the Asia-Pacific region, spans across nine countries: Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.
This recent announcement comes on the back of SMC’s achievement of being one of the first Malaysian hospitals to be named in the top 250 hospitals globally in the Newsweek World’s Best Hospitals 2024 rankings, which benchmarks hospitals around the world in areas of clinical excellence, research, and innovation.
