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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "mhtc",
 "type": "org",
 "names": {
  "name": "Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council",
  "aliases": [
   "MHTC"
  ],
  "said": "A government agency that markets. Hospitals are licensed by the Ministry of Health; MHTC lists them."
 },
 "region": [
  "southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "kind": "ministry",
  "iso2": "MY",
  "founded": 2005,
  "status": "open"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A Malaysian government agency set up in 2005 and incorporated as an independent entity in 2011 to promote and coordinate the country's healthcare travel trade. It sits under the Ministry of Health, moved to the Ministry of Finance in 2018, and works as the promoting and facilitating arm of the health ministry rather than as a licensing authority.",
  "story": "Malaysia built a state marketing body before most of its competitors did, and the structure is the interesting part. MHTC does not license a hospital — the Ministry of Health does that under the private healthcare legislation. MHTC admits hospitals to a membership list and promotes them, which means its list is a marketing roster with an entry requirement, not a register of who may lawfully operate.\n\n*Inference —* that distinction decides what a reader can do with the list. Absence from it does not make a hospital unlicensed. Presence on it does not add a licence. It says a hospital chose to join a promotional scheme and met its terms.\n\nThe agency publishes arrival and revenue figures for the trade, and those numbers travel widely. *Trade practice —* national healthcare-travel counts of this kind generally derive from hospital returns of foreign patient episodes, which count visits by non-residents rather than people who came for treatment, and include expatriates and visitors who fell ill. This directory does not carry the headline totals as facts about how many people travelled to Malaysia for care.",
  "how": "A hospital or clinic applies for MHTC membership, meets the entry criteria, and is listed and promoted. MHTC runs concierge desks, publishes destination material, and reports the sector's numbers to government. Its own site returned a server error to every fetch from this project on 16 September 2026, so this record rests on the secondary source named in sources.",
  "today": "As of 16 September 2026 the agency's own site could not be read by this project. The most recent figure this record could source is 2019, when Malaysia is reported to have received over 1.2 million healthcare travellers — a count of episodes reported by facilities, not of individuals who travelled for treatment."
 },
 "geo": {
  "lat": 3.139,
  "lon": 101.6869,
  "precision": "city",
  "source": "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
 },
 "address": {
  "city": "Kuala Lumpur",
  "country": "MY"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "malaysia",
   "as": "The country whose inbound trade it markets and reports on.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "malaysia-mhtc-licence",
   "as": "The rule record for what membership is and is not; licensing sits with the health ministry.",
   "rel": "governs"
  },
  {
   "to": "gleneagles-kl",
   "as": "One of the private hospitals on its member roster.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "to": "island-hospital-penang",
   "as": "The Penang hospital the agency's Indonesian corridor is built around.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "to": "counting-patients",
   "as": "Where a national healthcare-traveller total is taken apart.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "khidi",
   "as": "Korea's equivalent state body, which publishes a patient count instead of a visit count.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council",
   "url": "https://www.mhtc.org.my/"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text.story": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "note": "the second paragraph is this project's inference; the third is the trade's general practice on national counts, marked inline"
   },
   "geo": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "MHTC operates from Kuala Lumpur; city precision only"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A Malaysian government agency set up in 2005 and incorporated as an independent entity in 2011 to promote and coordinate the country's healthcare travel trade.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "southeast-asia",
   "name": "Southeast Asia",
   "note": "Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "malaysia",
   "type": "destination",
   "name": "Malaysia",
   "as": "The country whose inbound trade it markets and reports on.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "malaysia-mhtc-licence",
   "type": "rule",
   "name": "Malaysia's healthcare travel registration",
   "as": "The rule record for what membership is and is not; licensing sits with the health ministry.",
   "rel": "governs"
  },
  {
   "to": "gleneagles-kl",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur",
   "as": "One of the private hospitals on its member roster.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "to": "island-hospital-penang",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Island Hospital",
   "as": "The Penang hospital the agency's Indonesian corridor is built around.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "to": "counting-patients",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Counting patients",
   "as": "Where a national healthcare-traveller total is taken apart.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "khidi",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "Korea Health Industry Development Institute",
   "as": "Korea's equivalent state body, which publishes a patient count instead of a visit count.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "id": "s:mhtc-wikipedia",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Healthcare_Travel_Council",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "set up 2005, incorporated as an independent entity 2011, moved from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Finance in 2018, and the 2019 arrivals figure; mhtc.org.my returned HTTP 500 on this date"
  }
 ],
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   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "note": "the second paragraph is this project's inference; the third is the trade's general practice on national counts, marked inline"
  },
  "text.how": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
  },
  "text.today": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
  },
  "geo": {
   "tier": "inference",
   "note": "MHTC operates from Kuala Lumpur; city precision only"
  },
  "address": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:mhtc-wikipedia"
  }
 },
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 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "malaysia",
   "type": "destination",
   "name": "Malaysia",
   "as": "The council inside the health ministry that publishes this country's traveller count.",
   "rel": "measured-by"
  },
  {
   "from": "kuala-lumpur",
   "type": "hub",
   "name": "Kuala Lumpur",
   "as": "The state council that licenses and lists the hospitals here, and keeps the count.",
   "rel": "governed-by"
  },
  {
   "from": "penang",
   "type": "hub",
   "name": "Penang",
   "as": "The state council that lists these hospitals and publishes the counts.",
   "rel": "governed-by"
  },
  {
   "from": "gleneagles-kl",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur",
   "as": "The government agency that lists and promotes Malaysia's inbound hospitals.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "from": "island-hospital-penang",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Island Hospital",
   "as": "The government agency that named it a flagship hospital in 2025.",
   "rel": "accredited-by"
  },
  {
   "from": "prince-court",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Prince Court Medical Centre",
   "as": "The Malaysian government agency that lists and promotes hospitals taking foreign patients.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "from": "malaysia-mhtc-licence",
   "type": "rule",
   "name": "Malaysia's healthcare travel registration",
   "as": "The council that runs the membership half.",
   "rel": "org"
  },
  {
   "from": "dha-dubai",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "Dubai Health Authority",
   "as": "Malaysia's equivalent, publishing a visit count rather than a patient count.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "khidi",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "Korea Health Industry Development Institute",
   "as": "Malaysia's equivalent agency, publishing a visit count rather than a patient count.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "counting-patients",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Counting patients",
   "as": "The council whose membership list is a marketing roster rather than a register of who may operate.",
   "rel": "org"
  }
 ]
}