New Private Hospital Opens In Muharraq

Manama, Bahrain
August 21, 2006

Newly-built Al Hilal Hospital in Muharraq started receiving patients yesterday.

A soft opening of the hospital, which will provide medical services to over 120,000 people living in the Muharraq Governorate, was held in the presence of chairman Abdulnabi Al Sho'ala.

The hospital will provide free consultations over the coming two weeks, Al Sho'ala revealed.

Current facilities include more than 10 speciality clinics and a 24-hour emergency department.

'The 50-bed hospital will start receiving inpatients within two months, when the operation theatres will also start functioning,' said Al Sho'ala.

'It is being equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and we expect the total investment to reach more than BD1 million.'

The hospital will have about 25 doctors and 40 nurses, said managing director Shahul Hameed.

The facilities include two operation theatres, labour rooms, pharmacy, radiology, pathology and physiotherapy departments.

There are speciality clinics in orthopaedics, internal medicine, Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT), ophthalmology, gynaecology, dermatology as well as a fully-fledged dentistry department.

A cardiology department will also be opened shortly, said medical director Dr T H Sirajuddin.

'The majority of our doctors are from India and many of them are qualified from the UK and had earlier worked in Saudi Arabia,' he revealed.

The project will complement the excellent medical care provided by the government to citizens and residents, said director Marwa Al Sho'ala.

'Though there are government health centres and private clinics, this is the first major hospital to be set up in Muharraq in the private sector,' she said.

(Source: TradeArabia News Service) 

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