Work is moving at a steady pace on the BD12.1-million ($32 million) Muharraq Medical Complex project being funded by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD).
The project includes a 100-bed long-stay healthcare unit that is fully equipped with medical services and supporting administrative services to provide healthcare for those with medical conditions that require long-term residency in hospitals, such as cerebral palsy and other disabilities, reported BNA.
The centre will also include a reception area for emergency patients, wings and rooms for brain paralysis patients, wings and rooms for patients with other diseases, in addition to an isolation unit for patients with infectious diseases, a lab, a pharmacy, x-ray rooms, sterilization units, a physiotherapy unit, administrative support services and a central building for non-medical services serving the medical complex.
With nearly 53 per cent of the project already completed, the complex is likely to be ready in the third quarter of 2021, stated the report.
Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister, Essam bin Abdulla Khalaf, and Health Minister, Faeqa bint Said Al-Saleh recently paid an inspection visit to the Medical Complex site.
They were briefed on the ongoing progress work at the Muharraq Healthcare Centre and the Multiple Sclerosis Care Centre projects, both implemented by the Works Ministry for the Health Ministry, based on the directives of the late HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to meet the needs of the citizens and upgrade the health services in the kingdom.
The ministers also got an update on the implementation phases of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Care Centre in Muharraq Medical Complex, which is the first of its kind in the Arabian Gulf region, said the BNA report.
The facility consists of seven outpatient clinics, an MRI department, a physiotherapy department and another for manual therapy, public and private treatment rooms, a laboratory, a pharmacy, a scientific research centre, a lecture hall and medical warehouses. The building also includes administrative offices and car parks, it added.
SOURCE: TRADEARABIA