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Moh Set Kd 1 Million For A Total Of 7 Projects For Expansion And Establishment Of Hospitals
The Ministry of Health set KD 1.33 million to establish, expand hospitals governorates. Head of the health projects department at the Ministry, (engineer) Hisham Abulhasan said in remarks to KUNA on Wednesday that the Ministry is following up on a strategy to cope with the structural plan of the country till 2010, allocating a total of 4,342 beds to all existing and new hospitals.
The MoH allocated a land of 81,000 square meters to establish Sabah Al-Ahmad Hospital in Sabah Al-Ahamd city, with a 7,000-bed capacity. New Al-Sabah Hospital in Al-Sabah medical area is among the new hospitals to be built at a cost of KD 178.9 million, with 771 beds capacity, he said.
Al-Amiri Hospital will witness increasing capacity to 446 beds, buying medical equipment, building outpatient clinics at KD 98 million, he added. By finishing the new Al-Amiri Hospital, the old Al-Amiri hospital will witness renewing its operations wards, and increasing them to nine.
Meanwhile, Al-Farwaniya Hospital expansion cost reached KD 265 million, besides increasing the bed capacity to 938. Al-Adan Hospital expansion cost stood at KD 231.9 million, with beds reaching 938. Expansion of the Communicable Disease Hospital cost KD 53.9 million with beds reaching 255.
Al-Razi Hospital expansion project was handed to the Ministry last October, at the cost of KD 33 million, with an increase in the number of beds to 240.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital is now handed to the Ministry of Public Works, while Al-Jahra Hospital is handed to the Amiri Diwan, as the hospitals expansion projects are scheduled to end in one year and a half. (USD=KD 0.303).
SOURCE : THETIMES
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