Metro Sanitas starts a network of medical clinics in the Philippines with the acquisition of MegaClinic
The joint-venture Metro Sanitas Corporation, participated by Metro Pacific Hospitals Holding Inc. and Sanitas Internacional, acquired in January of this year the majority of shares of MegaClinic Inc., the largest and most complete outpatient medical clinic in the Philippines. This acquisition represents the first step of this joint venture created in 2016 to establish a network of 30 clinics in Metro Manila area.
Thanks to the implementation of the ‘one stop clinic’ concept and a more efficient managerial system, the new network aims to attend the majority of health needs in one place and unique visit, which constitutes an innovating health alternative based on integral and quality services at affordable prices.
About MegaClinic, the medical facility is located in Mandaluyong City (Metro Manila area) and occupies a 2,164 square-meter surface at SM Megamall, a commercial center in Ortigas business district. With more than 250 professionals, this clinic provides health attention to middle class population, among them, families and employees. With reference to the main services offered nowadays, it includes general medicine and specialty consultations, clinical laboratory, imaging diagnostic, out-patient surgery, physical therapy and rehabilitation, dental services, eye laser surgery and derma laser.
Created in 2006, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation is a Philippine group present in this country’s key sectors, such as, water, power, toll roads, hospitals and rail. Metro Pacific Hospitals Holding Inc. is the Metro Pacific group’s division dedicated to health, specifically to hospitals’ management, participating in the ownership of thirteen hospitals with a total capacity for more than 3.000 beds.