www.ipohecho.com.my FREE COPY IPOH ECHO IPOH WISHES ALL OUR READERS Your Voiceechoecho In The Community A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS CHINESE NEW YEAR ISSUE 90 February 1-11, 2010 PP 14252/10/2010(025567) An Eventful Seefoon Uncovers Evening with A Cornucopia But The The Indomitable Of Delights Word Karim Raslan.. At Impiana Hotel “ALLAH” By N.H. Chan Pg 3 Pg 5 Pg 12 IPOH’S HOME GROWN BPHG What began as a small lab inside Perak Community Specialist Hospital PCSH (in those days known as the Perak Chinese Maternity Hospital PCMH) in 1982 has blossomed into a national chain of primary care centres that is now the largest employer of medical doctors outside of the government and the largest chain of laboratories and diagnostic centres in S.E. Asia. continued on page 2 2 IPOH ECHO FEBRUARY 1-11, 2010 Your Voice In The Community READY TO CONQUER THE WORLD OF HEALTHCARE ome grown BP and hospitals”. Using the HHealthcare Group is analogy of hypermarkets proud of its Ipoh small town and convenience stores, origins. Now a conglom- Dato Beh likens his BP erate with 44 labs and 30 diagnostic centres to the Diagnostic centres spread 7Eleven’s of healthcare throughout east and west while the hospitals are the Malaysia the group is look- Giants or Tescos. ing forward to the opening Operating mainly as Where it all began of its new headquarters in a laboratory since 1982, BPHG opened its full more efficient service, a & Safety Health and Annual function for their own labs Glenmarie, Shah Alam, cosier more comfortable health screening packages and diagnostic centres, have Selangor. This new build- fledged Diagnostic Centre in 2004 and has not looked environment and a mini- for their employees. now become a full-fledged ing has collaboration with mum risk of contracting subsidiary business – BP the International Medical Reuben Poh, Director back since. Today, BP IT & Communication Diagnostic Centres will infectious diseases espe- New Services Business Solutions – a MSC- University, the opening of cially in times of epidemics Not content with being the status company providing as a non-profit institution. provide all the medical these facilities will provide such as the recent H1N1 largest diagnostic chain of IT solutions to private The Beh Hin Mei building services an average the university’s medical alert. Their doctors who centres in Malaysia, Dato’ medical clinics, assisting named in honour of his fa- person may require students with a hands-on are permanently based in Beh and his son Chevy to- them in streamlining their ther in PCSH on Kampar except for operations training facility and will the respective centres are gether with relative Reuben operations and increasing Road, was donated by and hospitalisation. This soon see BPHG becoming specially trained in per- Poh Yeong Han, have add- their efficiency. These can Dato’ Beh to house nine includes radio-imaging a big player in the medical forming diagnostic tests, ed Hearing Solutions to include digital solutions resident clinics as well as and many other diagnostic arena. health screening and con- their ever increasing rep- to recording bio data and the laboratory and radiol- facilities and services. Founder Dato’ Beh sultation. Their number of ertoire of services, offering biometric tests to determine ogy centre which he initi- They were the first local Chun Chuan is surprisingly centres and bulk purchas- a whole range of hearing family and medical history ated. From these humble laboratory chain to be modest about the group’s ing of drugs, equipment devices complete with the as well as streamlined growth and achievements, beginnings, the BPHG em- accredited with ISO 15189, an achievement of which and test kits, as well as equipment and technol- patient visits and history. Beh senior is justifiably staff trained to multi-task, ogy to test for hearing loss. BP Healthcare Group proud. This accreditation result in lower operating Dental services is next on has come a long way since assures them fully capable costs which are passed on their list, providing the ba- its humble beginnings as a of performing 6 major to the consumer. sic services for dental hy- laboratory attached to the laboratory scopes with 135 The majority of their giene as well as for more Perak Chinese Maternity test parameters making clientele comes from the sophisticated procedures Hospital and has made BP Clinical lab the chain corporate sector and many of crowns and implants. Ipoh proud of its home offering the widest range are multi-national with Their IT (Information grown origins. With the of recognised tests in the companies signing for pre- Technology) services new headquarters coming country. employment, Occupational which began as a support up in Glenmarie, Shah When asked if they Alam, Ipoh Echo wishes the represent a competitive Blood collection area group much success in its threat to existing pharma- expansion and hopes that its New Diagnostic centre in Cheras, KL cies, clinics and even the founding family will always hospitals, Dato’ Beh said, remember its small town waving aside any attempts pire has grown exponen- affiliation. on this writer’s part to tially, fuelled by patient “We do not claim to pro- shower him with acco- demands for affordable vide the extensive services By SEEFOON lades, preferring instead primary healthcare. of a full-fledged hospital CHAN-KOPPEN to defer to his son Chevy but we do provide a quick to whom he deflected most One Stop Health Checks and easy service to the Get your FREE copy of the Ipoh Echo from: questions. Elaborating on the con- stand-alone clinics and doctors in private practice. Canning Gdn: Ariff Store, 40 Jalan Lee Kwee Foh. cept of primary healthcare, New Wing Fook Merchant, 56 Jalan Lee Kwee Foh. Humble Beginnings Dato Beh summed it up And patients can come to us to consult with our Lourd Enterprise, 7 Lorong Cecil Rae. He was forthcoming on the with, “Most people don’t Ipoh Gdn: Denis JaZZ Bistro (Mon closed), 26 Persara Ipoh 1. historical details though, know what that means so medical specialists after their screening.” Muhibah Hair Stylist, 103 Jalan Dato Lau Pak Khuan. revealing that as a medi- I tell them, we have one- Mama’s Home Baked Bread Stall (after 7 pm),JAMES Aneka GOUGH Selera. cal microbiologist he had stop health checks! We Lower Costs for Ipoh Gdn South: Pasar Mini Manaf, 17 Jalan S.A. Lingam. his first laboratory in the cater primarily to healthy First Gdn: LSF Sun Li Hardware Sdn Bhd, 50, Jalan Ng Weng Hup. Perak Chinese Maternity people who come in for Consumer In a comparison chart flyer Labrooy Road: LSF Sun Li Hardware Sdn Bhd, 16A Jalan Labrooy. Hospital, working closely their wellness diagnostic Meru: Golf Reception Counter, Meru Valley Golf & Country Club. with its hospital Chairman, tests. And we have resident of the services offered by BP versus independent New Town: Kedai K.S. Maran (nxt Maybank), 212 Jln Sultan Idris Shah. the late Tan Sri Dato’ Lee physicians who give ad- Chan Sam Lock Photo Studio, 77-81 Jln Sultan Idris Shah. Loy Sing, one of the pri- vice to the patients on the labs, hospitals and GP clin- ics, BP came thumbs up on Pooran Enterprise (opp Super Kinta), 5 Jln Dato Onn Jaafar. mary supporters since its results and make recom- S.Y. Dry Cleaning & Laundry, 1 Jln Chung Thye Phin. founding. PCSH’s mission mendations and prescribe 39 services offered, with hospitals coming in a close Simee: Newsvendor (morning), Opposite Simee Market. originally was to provide medicines when necessary. Tmn Ipoh Jaya: Rasu Enterprise, 271 Jalan Gunung Rapat. low-cost medical services When we detect any con- second. They claim a turn- around time of 1-2 days Tmn Tambun: Bawal Jaya Enterprise, 66 Psrn Desa Tambun 7, Desa to the lower income class- dition requiring surgery Tambun. es in Perak as well as do- or outside of our primary for test results and their non-hospital setting results Tiger Lane: Perak Academy, 28 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah. ing ‘charity’ in providing health scope, we refer Golf Club Road: Fitness Junction, 2 Jalan Kelab Golf. charitable medical services them to other specialists in personalised attention, SITIAWAN P.N. Book Centre, 7 Jalan Dato Ahmad Yunus. Your Voice In The Community IPOH ECHO February 1-11, 2010 3 From the Editor’s Desk Fathol Zaman Bukhari www.ipohecho.com.myIPOH echoYour Voice In The Community An Eventful Evening with The Indomitable Karim Raslan…. ou’re being short- soul of Malaysia. Based was thrilled to bits. It was “Ychanged. Get KL to on what transpired that one eventful evening for pump in money into Perak evening a more appropri- all those who came to lis- and not somewhere else”, ate title would have been, ten and for the movers and said renowned writer and “How to bring back the shakers who were there that regional analyst, Karim shine to Ipoh”. Karim ac- evening, it might be wise Raslan, to the Who’s Who knowledged that the title to take heed of Karim’s of Perak at a dinner recent- was a little off the mark. admonition in his blog in ly. Karim was delivering Having steered the audi- Malaysian Insider implor- a talk entitled, “Ipoh, the ence back on to the right ing Ipohites that: Soul of Malaysia” at Syuen track, he chided them for “There are so many Hotel, Ipoh on January 15. failing to make demands opportunities for Ipoh It was Karim’s second ap- from the new BN-led state to reinvent itself, and it pearance as a guest speak- government.