DOHA: Over 1,100 new hospital beds will be created in Qatar by the end of next year, with opening of seven new public hospitals under Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), including three facilities exclusively for expatriate male single workers.
This the biggest expansion plan undertaken by the HMC in more than a decade, creating almost 60 new hospital beds every month over the next 18 months, HMC said yesterday.
New beds will be created in specialties where there is high demand for services and enable more patients to access care at these new, state-of-the-art hospitals.
The new facilities include the Women’s Research and Wellness Center and three workers-only hospitals being set up in Doha, Al Khor and Mesaieed Industrial Areas, with 112 beds each. “The delivery of these seven new hospitals – including new facilities for women’s health and the region’s first specialist ambulatory care center - reinforces Hamad’s commitment to giving the people of Qatar high quality, world class hospitals, facilities and healthcare,” said Hamad Al Khalifa, HMC’s Chief of Healthcare Facilities.
“These new hospitals and facilities will revolutionise healthcare delivery in Qatar by increasing bed capacity and giving our patients faster access to specialized care where and when they need it. The new hospitals and facilities will also significantly free up capacity at our existing hospitals to enable the continued development and expansion of services,” he added. The new purpose built, 65-bed Communicable Diseases Center will be dedicated to the care, treatment, prevention and research of communicable diseases.
The new Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC) will be a tertiary care provider and specialist hub for women’s health services with a capacity for up to 15,000 births per year. The WWRC will offer 260 beds and 53 neonatal intensive care cots and 48 step-down (intermediate) cots.
The new Ambulatory Care Center will provide outpatient clinic services together with a range of elective clinical procedures to adult patients who will not require an overnight stay. Some of the patients will require anesthesia or a period of post-procedure observation, or both.
The 38,000sqm Qatar Rehabilitation Institute with 193 beds will provide comprehensive and integrated rehabilitation services for adults and children. The three new hospitals for male labourers will provide easy-to-access, high quality health care closer to their communities.
Four of the new facilities- Communicable Diseases Center, Women’s Research and Wellness Center, Qatar Rehabilitation Institute and Ambulatory Care Center –are being established in an around Hamad bin Khalifa Medical City (HBKMC).
Building on recent new facility openings including the Neuroangiography Suite at Hamad General Hospital and the Enaya Continuing Care Center for women, children and adolescents, HMC has also overseen a significant expansion of services outside of Doha bringing care closer to patients.
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