KUALA LUMPUR: Borderless Healthcare Group has allocated US$200,000 to implement a total wellness programme for migrant workers and international students in several countries including Malaysia.
Its founder and chairman Dr Wei Siang Yu said the lockdown globally due to Covid-19 had not only created inconvenience for many but had also stranded communities like migrant workers and international students who may have to go through lots of anxiety for not having their family around during the pandemic.
He said migrant workers were usually confined in dormitories with more than 10 beds in one room and mightbnot have the comfort of communicating in their own language during the mass screening.
"We need more 'heartware' for certain compromised groups in the world amid the uncertainties caused by the pandemic.
"Borderless Healthcare is here to drive this total wellness programme with Malaysian doctors to bring healthcare professionals, migrant workers and international students and their family members together via the Borderless.clinic platform," he said at a press conference today.
Borderless.clinic is the first-of-its-kind clinic-of-the-future platform with device-agnostic telehealth engine, supported by a multi-lingual video call centre with blockchain and facial recognition capabilities.
The platform is already integrated with more than 20,000 pages of easy-to-understand, medically audited content and a global panel of renowned medical experts from Australia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Europe and the US.
The development of "heartware" will see Borderless.clinic dotted in many non-clinical locations as well as universities, dormitories, transport hub, border crossings.
Dr Wei said more than two million migrant workers and more than 100,000 international students would be eligible to join the multi-lingual interactive Covid-19 education program.
It is conducted by participating Malaysian doctors and their counterparts from the country of origin of the migrant workers and international students.
This will be followed by proprietary co-care consultation sessions with Covid-19 experts, Malaysian doctors and the patients' family members which will be made available at selected locations in Malaysia and other countries via the Borderless.clinic platform.
He said migrant workers in other countries and non-Malaysian international students are also welcome to join.
The Malaysian doctors are led by Dr Liew Kong Fui, a Borderless Medipreneur who will be working with other Borderless Medipreneurs in other countries like Myanmar and Indonesia to expand the Borderless Covid-19 fighter network worldwide.