Asia’s biggest hospital group is offering on-demand tests for the new coronavirus in Malaysia while helping Singapore’s authorities diagnose cases, even as other countries struggle with a shortage of kits.
IHH Healthcare Bhd.’s Gleneagles and Pantai hospitals around Kuala Lumpur and Melaka are endorsed to perform the tests by Malaysia’s health authority, which has sought to “Uber-ize” the service by letting people pay to find out whether they have the disease known as Covid-19. In Singapore, IHH’s ParkwayHealth Laboratory is the only private facility accredited by the health ministry to help test suspected cases.