Metro Pacific Hospitals Holdings, Inc. (MPHHI), the healthcare unit of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) which is among the nation’s largest conglomerates, is planning to deploy a common digital platform for its member hospitals, some of which already offer...
Two research teams from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed three new nasopharyngeal (NP) swab designs, which will be used in testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first one, ‘Python’, is produced using 3D-printing technology while ‘IM2’ and...
Frozen Wheels, a US-based distributor of food and personal protective equipment (PPE), announced the opening of an office in Thailand for sourcing powder-free nitrile examination gloves. The company hopes to take control of the supply chain by setting up a local...
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, through its Vietnam subsidiary, signed an agreement with the National Phytopharma Joint-Stock Company No 2 (Phytopharma) allowing the latter to distribute AstraZeneca pharmaceutical products in Vietnam. This is expected to provide...
Indonesia’s major pharmaceutical companies are working with foreign partners to produce COVID-19 vaccines. To support the development of early stage of vaccine development, the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology had allocated USD 500,000 in funding. The...
Malaysian companies continue to boost their productivity to produce medical supplies, following the rapid surge of demand from domestic and global communities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the medical supplies with growing demand include air ventilators, nasal...
The Department of Health (DOH) has estimated and proposed a total of PHP 182 billion (USD 3.6 billion) for the first year of the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law. The UHC was signed into law in February 2019 while the rules and regulations were released...
Singaporean medtech company, Endofotonics, announced an investment of SGD 12 million (USD 8.6 million) from specialist healthcare investors Mr Tony Tan Choon Keat, Chairman of Singapore Medical Group (SMG) and Founding Managing Director of Parkway Holdings, and...
Trials on monkeys have been launched for a COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Thailand, after positive results were seen in mice. The vaccine is being developed by the National Vaccine Institute, the Department of Medical Science and Chulalongkorn University’s...
Beowulf Blockchain (“Beowulf”), a US-based B2B platform providing communication services via a decentralized cloud network of computing resources worldwide, has partnered with Vietnamese pharmaceutical distributor, CHAN TAN Pharma, to record drug data...
Vietnamese conglomerate, Vingroup, announced it has designed two invasive ventilator models, which are compliant with international standards, while maintaining high localization rate in design and manufacture. To address the challenge of the global scarcity of...
As COVID-19 cases surge in Indonesia, doctors are using telemedicine solutions to treat patients both at hospitals and online. Due to a lack of medical staff and protective gear, and under 4,000 hospital beds for seriously ill COVID-19 patients in an archipelago of...
