(Update) Fund Drive for MRI Machine for Sibu Hospital

Sarawak Heart Foundation would like to acknowledge the contributions from corporate donors who have responded to its fund-raising appeal for the purchase of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine for Sibu Hospital: –

1          Hock Peng Furniture & General Contractors Sdn Bhd

2          Simalau Plantation Sdn Bhd

3          Titanium Project Management Sdn Bhd

4          Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd

5          Harum Bidang Sdn Bhd

6          Asteel Sdn Bhd

7          Samling Resources Bhd

8          R H Forest Corporation Sdn Bhd

9          Sanyan Holdings Sdn Bhd

10        KTS-BLD Foundation

11        TAS Offshore Bhd

12        One Medicare Sdn Bhd

13        Biomedix Solutions Sdn Bhd

14        Sarawak Timber Association

15        Ta Ann Holdings Bhd

16        Ibraco Bhd

17        Hock Seng Lee Bhd

18        Sarawak Energy Bhd

As of 31 December 2022, a total of RM1.74 million has been raised for the machine.

The machine, a Philips Diamond Select 1.5T Achieva dStream, costs RM2.6 million and is recommended by Sarawak Heart Centre for Sibu Hospital.

Sibu Hospital is in dire need of the MRI machine as the present one there is near end of life. Patients in the Central Region of the State had to be referred to Sarawak Heart Centre as the machine in Sibu Hospital cannot treat or does not have the capacity to handle those cases.

The machine will be able to address the immediate needs of Sibu Hospital in providing MRI services to patients in the whole of the Central Region of the Sarawak that includes Sarikei, Mukah and Kapit Divisions.

Three hospitals in the country namely Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Hospital Seberang Jaya and Hospital Sultan Abdul Halim are using Philips Diamond Select 1.5T Achieva dStream.