Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and Commander of the National Guard, will open the 1,095-bed King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, the largest medical facility in the Middle East, on Tuesday. The Medical City, which comprises four hospitals, was established at a cost of SR2.3 billion.
Okaz newspaper quoted Minister of Health Dr Hamad Al-Manie as saying that the Crown Prince supported and promoted the project.
The complex includes a 459-bed principal hospital, which has specialised clinics to treat chronic diseases, a 50-bed rehabilitation unit, a 300-bed paediatric hospital, a 250-bed maternity hospital, a psychiatric hospital, an ambulance maintenance building, administration building, and services building, staff housing units, and a community centre, which comprises a mosque, shopping centre, school, a day-care centre and recreational centre.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd donated SR53.98 million last year to purchase modern medical equipment required by the complex.
The Minister of Health disclosed the government’s plan to establish similar specialist hospitals all over the country. Crown Prince Abdullah will open a newly established, 640-bed Gulf Specialist Hospital in Dammam this month. The foundation stone will be laid for another specialist hospital in Hail imminently.
Al-Manie said that the health sector would receive a substantial part of the SR41 billion allocated by the government from this year’s budget surplus for development projects. The money will be used to establish primary health care centres in various regions of the Kingdom.
Source: SPA
