In a statement issued to the media today, the company said it had signed memoranda of business explorations (MOBE) with WAS, First Ambulance Services and Optima Technic to consider possible tie-ups with its healthcare support division, which provides non-clinical healthcare support services in Southeast Asia.

WAS is a German company that has been manufacturing special vehicles and ambulances for 20 years.

UEM Edgenta said the company’s technological advances and innovative concepts for ambulances and patient transport vehicles have enabled it to provide emergency services with a safe, more efficient and enhanced user-friendly emergency vehicle.

“The goal is to strengthen emergency services offered, making it more sustainable for the future,” the statement said.

First Ambulance, which is based in Malaysia, is a provider of integrated pre-hospital emergency and medical care, patient transport and medical-retrieval services. It operates in the main medical hubs in the country.

UEM Edgenta said the objective of working together with WAS and First Ambulance is to provide solutions that will improve healthcare services in Malaysia and other regions where it operates.

It said that through its partnership with Optima Technic, a company based in Turkey that provides various economical mobile solutions, it would be able to provide easier access to safe and fast-built facilities particularly in rural and remote locations where communities lacked basic access to health.

The MOBE agreements were signed at the Arab Health 2023 exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre.