Makkah, November 29: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah opened on Saturday the King Abdullah Medical City in Makkah (KAMC), the third largest medical facility in the Kingdom. The king also opened the Mina Al-Wadi Hospital, one of the largest temporary hospitals in the holy sites, which operates only during the pilgrimage season.
Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah thanked the king for ordering the establishment of these two major projects in Makkah. He pointed out that KAMC in Makkah, the biggest medical facility in the Kingdom after King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh and King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam, complemented the existing medical cities and other health care organizations in the country in providing the highest quality health-care services to Saudi citizens, residents and pilgrims.
“Also, it forms part of the national health-care project for creating a comprehensive and integrated health-care system that meets the ambitions of the leadership and the needs and requirements of the Saudi citizens,” he said.
The KAMC covers an 800,000-sq. meter area together with the National Project for Integrated Health-care. He said the city had 1,500 beds, including 500 beds in the specialist referral hospital. The specialist referral hospital consisted of five stories with 10 operating theaters and a modern radiology department. He also said the maternity and children’s section had 500 beds. It has been designed to the international standards to provide optimum services in this particular specialty to patients. The hospital, which has its own airstrip, includes Micro-biology units, Sterilization, Central Pharmacy, Outpatient, Accident and Emergency, Department for Women and Children, Endoscopy and X-ray, CT Scan and Ultrasound, Physiological Functions Analysis and Physical Therapy units.
The Mina Al-Wadi Hospital has been designed to provide quality medical services pilgrims.
The hospital, completed in a record time of 11 months, covers an area of 3,400 sq. meters and has a capacity of 200 beds. It has X-ray and Sterilization units as well as two operation theaters equipped with the latest surgical and medical equipment.
Twenty-four of the beds are allocated to departments of Emergency, Heat Exhaustion and Intensive Care, six for observation, and four for resuscitation.
——Agencies