The K Klinik
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 68.2/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #13 of 27 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
68.2/100
coverage 95% (threshold 75%)
Summary
Medical aesthetic clinic on Jalan Kelawai, George Town, offering injectables, laser and skin treatments, facial and body contouring and hair treatments. Three aesthetic physicians are named on the site; two of them hold a Ministry of Health Letter of Credentialing and Privileging for aesthetic medical practice.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found in the register with a current status; the register does not disclose the specialty, or discloses a different one (including “no specialisation”), and the clinic claims no protected title. The register's own line is shown on the profile. Two of the named physicians are listed in the Ministry of Health registry of practitioners credentialed for aesthetic medical practice (MMC 52771 and 58796) and all three hold current registration in the practitioner register; a search of the National Specialist Register returned no specialty entry for them, so the credential attests aesthetic procedures rather than specialist status. [lcp] [merits] [nsr] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Three physicians are named with roles and qualifications, and the practitioner register lists this address as a declared place of practice for each of them. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. Found in the Ministry of Health facility register at the same address and licensed type, but under the spelling "THE K CLINIC" where the site uses "THE K KLINIK": THE K CLINIC, 167 (TINGKAT BAWAH & TINGKAT 1), JALAN KELAWAI, 10250. [fac] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The legal entity is named; the register of this class is not accessible or does not cover this legal form (sole practitioner, private practice). The clinic publishes a company registration number in its site footer. The official company register (SSM e-Info) returns records only to a paid, authenticated account. In a commercial copy of that register the same number is recorded under the company name Vanity Medical Sdn. Bhd., a medical clinic registered in Pulau Pinang on 3 June 2020; a trading name and the registered name of the company behind it commonly differ, so no match by name was made and the entity is recorded as named but not matched in the register. [site-home] [ctos] THE K KLINIK (1369445-V) |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. A public FAQ addresses product registration and the complications of injectable treatments. No informed-consent, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route material found. [sitefaq] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Khoo Kok Khai [merits] [lcp] [site] | Aesthetic physician | MMC 52771 / LCP-AMP-001/2018(32) |
| Dr. Tan Xiang Yun [merits2] [lcp] [site] | Aesthetic physician | MMC 58796 / LCP-AMP-001/2023(7) |
| Dr. Lim Ying Xin [merits3] [site] | Aesthetic physician | MMC 93862 |
Legal entity: The K Klinik · 1369445-V [sitefaq]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Foreign-patient register (Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) — Find a Hospital directory): could not verify
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.thekklinik.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +6017 508 7228 |
| Address | 167, Jalan Kelawai, 10250 George Town, Pulau Pinang |
| City | Penang |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.thekklinik.com/aesthetic-doctors/ | clinic's own site | Three physicians named with roles and qualifications; treatment menu and address on the linked home page | 30 August 2026 |
| sitefaq | https://www.thekklinik.com/faq/ | clinic's own site | FAQ on injectable safety and complications; footer company number "THE K KLINIK (1369445-V)" | 30 August 2026 |
| merits | https://merits.mmc.gov.my/viewDoctor/37806/search | official register | MeRITS practitioner record KHOO KOK KHAI: full registration number 52771, APC 2026, place of practice THE K KLINIK, 167 JALAN KELAWAI, 10250 GEORGETOWN | 30 August 2026 |
| merits2 | https://merits.mmc.gov.my/viewDoctor/46074/search | official register | MeRITS practitioner record TAN XIANG YUN: full registration number 58796, APC 2026, places of practice include THE K KLINIK, 167 KELAWAI RD, 10250 GEORGETOWN | 30 August 2026 |
| merits3 | https://merits.mmc.gov.my/viewDoctor/84673/search | official register | MeRITS practitioner record LIM YING XIN: full registration number 93862, APC 2026, places of practice include THE K KLINIK, 167 JALAN KELAWAI, 10250 GEORGETOWN | 30 August 2026 |
| lcp | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZzINFL8G6EjZSZy88kiB0YMSY4t… | official register | MOH National Registry of RMP with LCP, Chapter 1 (General Practitioner), CSV rows 219 and 401: KHOO KOK KHAI, MMC 52771, LCP-AMP-001/2018(32), Pulau Pinang; TAN XIANG YUN, MMC 58796, LCP-AMP-001/2023(7), Pulau Pinang | 30 August 2026 |
| nsr | https://www.nsr.org.my/list11.asp | official register | National Specialist Register public search: POST list1pview.asp for Khoo Kok Khai, Tan Xiang Yun and Lim Ying Xin — 0 records each | 30 August 2026 |
| fac | https://mygos.mygeoportal.gov.my/gisserver/rest/services/KKM/FASILI… | official register | myGeoCKAPS layer 5, OBJECTID 336796 / GlobalID {9FC9B7BD-9974-4B1A-8199-234C7C069427}: THE K CLINIC, 167 (TINGKAT BAWAH & TINGKAT 1), JALAN KELAWAI, 10250 | 30 August 2026 |
| mmc | https://mmc.gov.my/removal-of-names-from-register-2/ | official register | Malaysian Medical Council cessation-of-registration lists for 2024, 2025 and 2026 searched locally for registration numbers 52771, 58796 and 93862 — no entry | 30 August 2026 |
| site-home | https://www.thekklinik.com/ | clinic's own site | home page footer publishing the clinic name and a registration number | 20 September 2026 |
| ctos | https://businessreport.ctoscredit.com.my/oneoffreport_api/single-re… | secondary | GET https://businessreport.ctoscredit.com.my/oneoffreport_api/single-report/malaysia-company/1369445V/X (CTOS Business Directory, a commercial copy of the SSM register) -> Company Name VANITY MEDICAL SDN. BHD.; Company Registration No. 1369445V / 202001013125; Nature of Business MEDICAL CLINIC; Date of Registration 2020-06-03; State PULAU PINANG | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 3 (Re-run against the legal-entity class (v1.2 pass 1): SSM e-Info re-probed and still login-gated; the published number was not matched by name in the listed mirror route.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.