Drake & Scull Saudi has been awarded a contract with an estimated value of SR130 million to execute the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) works for a 400-bed hospital in Damman.

RED House Group and Rizk Healthcare announced that they have forged an exclusive partnership within the formation RRHH - Rizk RED House Healthcare.

ABU DHABI: The Middle East health care sector is expected to be worth $60 billion by 2025 as the need for investment in facilities and services continues to escalate.

The Heart Hospital Pharmacy has become the first such facility at the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) to implement an automated prescription system.

Madinat Zayed Hospital, one of the hospitals in the Al Gharbia Hospitals Group owned and operated by the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA), has become the 7th SEHA facility to be awarded the prestigious Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA). Madinat Zayed's achievement is part of SEHA's goal of JCIA accreditation for all healthcare providers within the SEHA HealthSystem.

Commander of the King Hamad University Hospital (KHUH), Brigadier General Dr. Shaikh Salman Bin Atiyatallah Al Khalifa, has announced that the management of the hospital has begun transferring Muharraq residents’ medical records to the Electronic Health Files System which will be generalized, according to a timetable, to all health facilities in the Kingdom’s governorates, starting with Muharraq.

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is to open a communicable diseases hospital to tackle the rising incidence of infectious diseases in the country. The super-specialty hospital is expected to be ready by 2013.

Dubai will need 6,000 hospital beds in the near future

Dubai Health Authority’s state-of-the-art Al Barsha Primary Health Centre is expected to be completed by mid-2012.

The first diagnostic centre that offers a telemedicine link with doctors around the world was inaugurated here on Sunday.

Management of primary health centres across the country is being decentralised with more powers to each centre to develop its own programmes and activities, a senior official of the primary health care institution has said.

More western Europeans are going abroad for cheaper medical treatment

'The hospital’s internal electrical network needs replacement, said Ahmad Al-Harari, Director of the Electricity Administration in Al-Baha.

New strategy aims to provide basic facilities to members of the community at reasonable cost

The American University Hospital (AUH) has opened a new section of its dermatology department jointly named after former Kuwaiti health minister Dr. Abdul-Wahhab Al-Fozan, and his counterpart from the UAE, Dr Ibrahim Kaldari.

Major expansion of the health sector, including new hospitals and facilities and renovation of existing ones, is envisaged in the health sector under the Sultanate’s Eighth Five-Year Plan 2011-2015.