‘In hospitals, even cleaners are critical’: IHH Group CEO says leadership starts with the people no one sees

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[KUALA LUMPUR] Dr Prem Kumar Nair did not grow up dreaming of a career in only medicine. Law too appealed to him for the same reason healthcare eventually did: both are, at heart, about people.

That instinct, more than any grand doctrine, now sits at the centre of how he runs IHH Healthcare – one of the world’s largest private-hospital operators.