Workers hospital to open in 2017

The Private Engineering Office (PEO), the government agency that oversees high-profile development projects in the country, handed over the workers-only hospital project at Industrial Area to Hamad Medical Corporation, yesterday. The hospital is expected to become operational by next summer.

The facility is one of the three hospitals dedicated to expatriate single workers.

It includes a 118-bed hospital, along with a primary health center and medical commission services. HMC will soon begin furnishing and equipping the facility to be opened next year, Qatar News Agency reported yesterday.

The hospital, with an area of 132,000square metres will have a basement, ground floor and two storeys above. The capacity of the facility can be increased to 210 beds if needed. Authorities expect some 30,000 patients to be seen at the facility monthly.

The project includes a primary health center covering over 7,200sqm and medical commission services, aimed to reduce pressure in neighboring facilities.

First floor of the project will facilitate health center, a day care emergency unit, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology service, intensive care unit, out-patient department, dental, burns, rehabilitation and physiotherapy clinics.
The second floor will have the operation theaters, 16-bed intensive care, administration section and a 102-bed ward along with four isolation rooms.

The facility has three entrenches apart from one dedicated for ambulances,a central kitchen and laundry, and mortuary. The facility also has helipads for emergency cases to be flown in. There will be 30-bed emergency department and facility for minor-operations.

The project that took three years to complete also includes a mosque with a capacity of 400 people and a cafeteria over 1300sqm to accommodate high number of labour population expected. The project also has green spaces and parking facilities for 710 vehicles including 200 covered parking and 26 dedicated for people with special needs.

The construction of similar facility in Ras Laffan will be completed during first quarter of next year followed by Messaieed in the second quarter.

The hospitals once operational will have major positive impact on health services. It will cater to the healthcare needs of the labour population; being conveniently located, they will reduce the need for patients to travel for care and reduce the burden on hospitals in Doha.

HMC said that the hospital is due to start operating during summer of 2017 which will contribute to alleviating the pressure on the emergency department at Hamad General Hospital, which often receives up to 900 patients per day in the see- and –treat clinic.