New Silkroutes Group focused on transforming into a healthtech play

Group currently has 16 medical and dental clinics, and the manufacturing facility in China through its subsidiary, Shanghai Fengwei.

Angela Tan

Published Mon, Feb 15, 2021 · 05:50 AM

Health

Singapore

WITH the winding down of its loss-making legacy energy business, New Silkroutes Group Limited (NSG) is sharpening its focus on becoming a tech-based healthcare company, chief executive officer VicPearly Wong says.

Dr Wong - who took over the CEO reins last October from Goh Jin Hian, son of Singapore's former prime minister Goh Chok Tong - said healthcare will be the driving force for the mainboard listed group.

"Going forth, the group will be sharpening its focus on healthtech - innovative solutions to empower our clinicians and patients to give better diagnoses and outcomes," said Dr Wong, a specialist orthodontist.

"The pandemic has pushed our envelope in accepting technology in the archaic world of medicine; and that healthcare is no longer just a brick-and-mortar story. The restrictions on travel and mobility hav…