🇲🇾  Treatment in Kuala Lumpur

Regional authority

Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya Health Department, Private Medical Practice Control Unit

Jabatan Kesihatan Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur & Putrajaya, Cawangan Kawalan Amalan Perubatan Swasta

Applies the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 (Act 586) in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: it inspects private medical and dental clinics before and after registration, and private healthcare facilities when their licence is renewed.

Doctors

Malaysian Medical Council: registered doctors (MeRITS)

Search a doctor by name, place of practice or registration number: shows the type of registration and where they graduated.

Doctors

National Specialist Register: specialist search

Check that the surgeon is registered as a specialist, not only as a doctor.

Dentists

Malaysian Dental Council: search for a practitioner (Ministry of Health)

Choose "Malaysian Dental Council" as the council and the state of the clinic, then search the dentist's name. Dentists must be registered with the council to practise. If you do not find them, ask for their Malaysian Dental Council registration number and a copy of the annual practising certificate.

Accreditation list (not a licence)

Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC): hospitals for international patients (a promotion list, not a licence register)

The national medical travel council's list of hospitals for international patients. Being listed is not a guarantee of the outcome.

Accreditation list (not a licence)

MSQH: accredited hospitals (accreditation, not a licence)

The Malaysian Society for Quality in Health lists the hospitals it has accredited. Accreditation is voluntary: a hospital missing from it can still be licensed.