Respiratory Medical Institute (Kuala Lumpur)

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Address:
Respiratory Medical Institute
(Institut Perubatan Respiratori)
Jalan Pahang
50590 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Established in 1958 as a small clinic called Clinic Jalan Pahang. New structures were built in 1960 to house the country National Tuberculosis Program and Tuberculosis Hospital. The new establishment then was named National Tuberculosis centre. It served as the nerve centre for TB (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis) control activity and its laboratory served as National Referral Laboratory for Tuberculosis.

With the decline Tuberculosis and expansion of new respiratory disease services, in 1996 the new name was introduced. Institute of Respiratory Medicine now function as the hospital providing specialized care in all area of respiratory medicine and not only managing Tuberculosis. The bed strength of this hospital is 104 with 4 high dependency beds and 4 newly built negative pressure isolation rooms.