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Tue, 05/29/2018 - 19:20
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Agreement to build long-stay care centre in Muharraq signed

Manama, May 29 (BNA): Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister, Essam bin Abdulla Khalaf, has signed an agreement with the Saudi “Saleh Abdullah Al-Mahana” contracting company to build the Health Ministry’s Muharraq Long-stay Care Centre Project. The project, which is implemented, following directives from His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, aims to meet the citizens’ needs and improve medical services in the kingdom, the minister said. The project is part of an integrated medical complex comprising also a maternity hospital and a proposed center for multiple sclerosis patients, in addition to the existing elderly care centre. The implementation first phase of the Saudi Development Fund-funded project, costing BD 11.6 million-project, will commence in the third quarter of this year, and last for 24 months, he added. The project is within the first phase of projects of the Gulf Development Programme, which is based on the agreement signed between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in March 2014, covering the centre’s construction costs, construction of a central services building and all other facilities, external works, consultancy services, furniture, medical equipment, electrical and mechanical tools, non-medical and information system related requirements. The medical complex features three projects. The first is a long-stay care centre with a capacity to accommodate 100 beds, providing care for patients in need of admission at the care center for long periods. The center will also include a reception area for emergency patients, wings and rooms for brain paralysis patients, wings and rooms for patients with other diseases, in addition to an isolation unit for patients with infectious diseases, a lab, a pharmacy, x-ray rooms, sterilization units, a physiotherapy unit, administrative support services and a central building for non-medical services serving the medical complex, besides the central services for the medical complex like kitchens, washers and stores.  The complex also comprises a maternity hospital with 50 beds, and a proposed center for patients with multiple sclerosis.

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