Ashghal to build 250-bed modern hospital in Wakrah

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THE Public Works Authority (Ashghal) is to build a 250-bedded modern hospital in Wakrah, the tender for which will be called today, an official release yesterday said. To be located on the south of Wakrah City, the hospital complex will occupy 70,000sq m of land which will include the administrative and polyclinic buildings, emergency rooms, operation theatres, lecture hall, nurses residential compound, intensive care unit, labs, pharmacies, X-ray rooms, and the public services building.

The tender is open to local and international contracting companies and bids will be accepted until August 15, a spokesman said.

"This is one of the several projects that Ashghal is implementing in the health sector," he said.

Construction work is expected to begin by the fourth quarter of this year and the project is expected to be completed in 30 months. Ashghal has signed a QR5mn contract with a local company for consultation services.

While projects that cost less than QR100mn are reserved for local companies, those that cost between QR100mn-QR200mn are allocated to companies which have a minimum Qatari share of 51%," the Ashghal spokesman said.

Projects worth over QR200mn are open to local and international companies. To participate in this type of projects, an international bidder need not have a Qatari partner, the Ashghal release said.

The spokesman said the Medical Tower project located next to Hamad General Hospital is nearing completion and it will be ready for opening by the end of this year.

It is being built on an area of 25,000sqm and the complex contains an emergency section, polyclinics, operation theatres, labs for heart diseases besides 120 beds, lecture halls and offices for the medical staff.

In addition to these projects, Ashghal is working on the designs of 14 emergency health centres and three primary health centres with all facilities like specialised clinics, X-ray rooms, labs and pharmacies.

The Hamad Medical City in the Olympic Village is also under construction at a cost of QR2bn, the note said.

It is being built in two phases, the first to serve the Asian Games and the second for use of the Medical City and the Olympic Village.

"As a medical facility, it is the first of its kind in the Middle East. When completed it will have 32 residential buildings for doctors and the nursing staff, sports and entertainment facilities, a club with 50 rooms, an eight-storey administrative building with a capacity to accommodate 1,600 staff members, besides a hospital compound having 1,000 rooms and parking lots," the press statement said.

happy for the hospital, but hate the traditional (again) design.

U kidding I love the design.

yeah, if only it's for a villa, a museum or cultural centre, not a hospital.

Wonderful Hospital looks fantastic! especially the details on the windows :), it will make patients cheer as soon as they enter ;).

This is sper beautiful i don't understand why wakrah doesnt like it...

عقد إنشاء مستشفى الوكرة يتجاوز المليار ريال
كتب - علي حسين

أكد مصدر مسؤول بالهيئة العامة للأشغال ان مشروع بناء مستشفى الوكرة أرسيت مناقصته على شركة عالمية بقيمة إجمالية تجاوزت المليار ريال قطري وهي أكبر قيمة مالية لمشروع توقعه هيئة الاشغال منذ إنشائها وحتى الآن وسوف يتم الاعلان عن المشروع والشركة العالمية التي أرسي عليها العطاء خلال مؤتمر صحفي يعقده المسؤولون في أشغال خلال الساعات القليلة المقبلة.

وقال المصدر المسؤول ان العمل فعليا في المشروع سوف يبدأ في الربع الثاني من العام الجاري ويتوقع أن يستمر العمل في المشروع لمدة عامين والمعروف أن مستشفى الوكرة تقدمت له 18 شركة محلية وعالمية للفوز بعقد المشروع بعد أن طرح المشروع في مناقصة عامة وأعلن عن هذه المناقصة في الصحف العالمية.

ويأتي مشروع مستشفى الوكرة ضمن أهم المشاريع التي تنفذها «أشغال» في القطاع الصحي ويقع المشروع بجنوب مدينة الوكرة بمساحة إجمالية للبناء تبلع 000‚70 متر مربع يسع المبنى الرئيسي 250 سريرا ويتضمن القسم الاداري والعيادات الخارجية والطوارىء وغرف العمليات وقسم العناية الخارجية وقسم الولادة بالاضافة الى المختبرات والصيدليات وأقسام الاشعة وقاعة المحاضرات وسكن الممرضات وخدمات عامة أخرى خاصة بالصرح الطبي العملاق وكانت أشغال وقعت مع إحدى الشركات عقدا بقيمة خمسة ملايين ريال قطري لتوفير الخدمات الاستشارية لهذا المشروع.

Total project cost: 1 Billion Riyals

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Contract for the construction of a hospital in excess of one billion riyals al-Ali Hussein Al-An

official source at the Public Authority for works that the project of building a hospital al Menagsth laid on the universal value of the company exceeded one billion Qatari riyals, the largest financial value of the project expected occupancy since its inception and until now will be the announcement of the project The company, which laid out the tender during a press conference officials in the works during the next few hours. The source said the officer actually work on the project will begin in the second quarter of this year and is expected to continue work on the project for two years and the knowledge that the hospital made him al 18 local and international companies to win a project after the project is put up in a public tender and the tender was announced in the press global. The draft al Hospital among projects implemented by ashghal in the health sector and the project is located south of the city of al total area of the building stands at 000, 70 square meters can main building contains 250 beds and administrative section and outpatient clinics and emergency and operating rooms and the intensive care and the birth of Foreign Affairs in addition to laboratories, pharmacies and radiology departments and Hall lectures and housing nurses and other public services, especially medical giant edifice, the works signed with a company contracts with a value of five million Qatari riyals to provide advisory services to this project.

Work starts on 305-bed hospital


THE Public Works Authority (Ashghal) yesterday announced construction of a full-fledged hospital in Wakrah, at a cost of QR1.85bn.
The work started on Tuesday and is scheduled to take 30 months to complete.

The 305-bed hospital is being built by J & P Company of Cyprus over an area of 304,000sq m, south of Wakrah town.
Facilities will include inpatient and outpatient units, dental care, paediatric clinics, operation theatres, laboratories and dialysis centre.
There will be four operation theatres, rooms for one-day surgeries, and a labour section with anaesthesia unit. It will also have trauma and accident care supported by an intensive care unit.

An artist’s impression of the Wakrah Hospital
“This medical complex will be a major addition to the units of the Hamad Hospital, which include Rumaillah, Al Khor and Women’s hospitals”, said Ashghal managing director and board member Zayed Mansoor al-Khayarin, who signed the contract.
The hospital would serve the population of Wakrah, Mesaieed and Wukair besides areas in Doha such as Hilal and Old Airport, said al-Khayarin.
“It would be easy for people of these Doha suburbs to visit the new facility than going to Hamad Hospital.”
It would reduce the burden of Hamad Hospital, he added.
An expressway will connect the hospital to other parts of the country.
The total area of building is 128,000sq m, and the total surface area is 103,470sq m. The main building could accommodate 305 beds, including 228 inpatients, 52 in the ICU, seven for burns and 18 for dialysis.
Tender for the project was open to all companies. Some 18 companies bid for the project before J & P was awarded the job, officials said.
The main building of hospital comprises a basement, to be used for services, and six floors for different wings of the hospital.
A multi-storey car parking is planned. Some 620 cars could be parked inside the facility while another 1,000 could be accommodated outside.
Of the total land area of 303,533sq m, the covered area would be 38,904sq m. It means that the percentage of covered area is just 13%, leaving a lot of open space. This would facilitate future expansion, officials said.
Khayarin signed the contract with J & P managing director Andrias Petri Seidis, in the presence of Cypriot Ambassador George C Kasoulides and officials from both sides.
They included Ashghal’s assistant managing director for technical affairs Ahmed Sultan al-Kuwari, Sheikh Hasan bin Jabor al-Thani, acting assistant managing director for administration and finance affairs; and building affairs manager Mohamed Ali Darwish.
Also present were Saeed Ali Hamad al-Marri, CMC member for Mesaieed, and his Wakrah counterpart Hasan Abbas Abdurahim.

Where do they get the doctors to work in these hospitals? Local doctors or foreigners? If foreigners..are they paid a lot?

Where do they get the doctors to work in these hospitals? Local doctors or foreigners? If foreigners..are they paid a lot?


Well, you have local and foreigners working as doctors and nurses. And doctors usually usually get paid averagely.

Wakrah hospital ‘set to be largest’

Published: Saturday, 19 January, 2008, 01:59 AM Doha Time

Staff Reporter
THE hospital in Wakrah, which is under construction now and is expected to be completed by December next year, will be the largest hospital complex in the country, a local Arabic daily reported yesterday. It is being built on 304,000sq m of land at a cost of QR85mn.
The proposed 305-bed hospital will offer medical care in all the major areas such as maternity, general medicine, burns and other specialisations. There will be a full-fledged out-patient department with day care clinics.
Explaining the architectural features of the project, the site manager, Jamal Nazmi of the Public Works Authority, said that on the exterior side all the buildings will reflect the traditional Islamic motif on the pattern of many of the buildings in Qatar, but internally the buildings will follow the most modern exclusive hospital design.
It will have the latest facilities such as a network for the supply of medical gases like oxygen, pure air and gas for anaesthesia through pipes, he said.
The main building of the hospital will consist of seven floors including the basement. While the basement will be marked for services, the ground floor will have the main reception hall and the out-patient clinics. The remaining six floors will have beds, spread in the different wings.
The annexes to the hospital will consist of two floors each. There will also be a multi-storey building for parking 1,000 vehicles. There will be a similar multi-storey building for parking of the vehicles of the hospital staff and employees with a capacity for 600 vehicles.
The opening of this hospital along with the new fishing harbour and an additional full-fledged harbour that have been operational in the area will provide a new economic dimension to the Wakrah district, the daily said.
This new hospital will no doubt reduce the pressure on Hamad Hospital in Doha. It will be of great help and relief for the inhabitants of Wakrah, Wukair and Mesaieed, said Nazmi.

from gulf-times.com (http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/index.asp?cu_no=2&temp_type=44)

this can decrease the rush in hamad hospital

lets just hope they have a proper nursing staff not like the rejects in hamad hospital..

Wakra Hospital to open in ’09

DOHA • Al Wakra Hospital is expected to be opened next year, according to the Public Works Authority (Ashghal).

The QR1.85bn state-of-the-art hospital is located in Wakra covering an area of 128,000sqm and will offer a variety of quality health services. The construction of the hospital was started in May, 2007 and is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2009.

The hospital will provide healthcare to residents of Masieed, Al Wakra and south Doha localities.

Khalid Al Mannai of Ashghal's Public Relations Department said that the design of the hospital reflects Qatar's heritage and culture and the contractors from Cyprus are posied to complete the work as scheduled.

He said that the major part of construction was over and the authorities are currently busy installing medical equipment in coordination with the National Health Authority.


Source: Peninsula (http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=January2008&file=Local_News200801300742.xml)

Hello guys, any updates or photos about this project? I've heard that they will hand it to the authorities next month :)

Hello guys, any updates or photos about this project? I've heard that they will hand it to the authorities next month :)

They handed over the building to HMC (or will do so this or next week) but the hospital will open early next year 2011. :)

19/02/2011
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Wow, thanks for the image. Also a good view of wakrah mall, which seems to be onhold =S

Wow, thanks for the image. Also a good view of wakrah mall, which seems to be onhold =S

Image is amazing! yeah, the mall seems to be on hold!! :S:S:S

the hospital looks ready from outside
thanks its a great pic

Thanks for sharing this great shot :D
always loved the design of Wakrah hospital.

Treatment at new Wakrah Hospital begins next week Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:09

DOHA: The new Wakrah Hospital of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) would start receiving patients by the last week of this month.

All the outpatient clinics of the hospital will start functioning from April 23, Al Sharq reported yesterday quoting an HMC source.

The other sections will go operational in a phased manner.

However, the schedule for the official opening of the hospital is yet to be finalised, the paper said.

The QR1.85bn hospital will be the largest healthcare facility in the country. Of the total 321 beds, 150 beds will be ready in the initial phase. This will include 25 beds each for internal diseases, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and 50 beds for intensive care.

The outpatient clinics will be located on the ground floor of the building, with 70 examination rooms in addition to a basement for storage and services, the paper said.

[B]hello sir,


I have read your post about Al Wakrah Hospital Me and my wife is interested in learning more about the hospital. My wife is an OR nurse for 11 years and is currently employed at Al Noor Hospital in Abu Dhabi UAE. I am seeking your advice in case you have internal knowledge how e could apply in that hospital Our interests in Qatar is being fueled by rumors that Qatar salary is the best in the Mid East being a rich economy backed by enormous supply of oil. therefore truth in the rumors is not a far from reality. I am hoping for your kindness in feeding us information about Al Wakra employment.

Best Regards

Mike

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