The Private Engineering Office delivered on Tuesday the Ras Laffan hospital and health center project to Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in line with the coordination with the Ministry of Public Health, with HMC now set to take charge of equipping the two health facilities according to the plan.

The hospital project is one of three executed by the Private Engineering Office to boost the health sector in the country. The other two are the Industrial Area Hospital (Abu Nakhla Hospital), which was handed over to HMC a year ago, and Mesaieed Hospital, which will be completed by the end of the year.

The hospitals and their different facilities help in raising the health service level as they accommodate visitors from the workforce in the regions that they are located, which alleviates the pressure on Doha hospitals.

Ras Laffan Hospital is constructed over an area of 200,000 square meters and comprises an underground level, a ground level and two upper levels. It has 118 hospital beds over a total area of 47,000 square meters.

The project allows for adding 100 more hospital beds as the land area has space for constructing a parallel building if it becomes needed in the future.

The hospital’s area includes a health center for primary health care that was established over an area of 7,200 square meters besides medical commission services in order to ease the pressure on health centers in the neighboring regions of Ras Laffan.

In addition, the project includes supportive service facilities, including a mosque with a capacity of 400 people and a 1,300-square meter cafeteria to accommodate the high numbers of visitors from the workforce.

Built to reflect Qatari heritage and architecture, the hospital features green areas and parking lot that accommodates 704 cars, including 200 covered parking spaces and 21 for people with disabilities as well as corridors and streets linking the different buildings of the hospital.

The ground floor has an integrated health center, day care unit, emergency department, central lab, central pharmacy, intensive care unit, outpatient clinics, dental clinic, rehabilitation and physiotherapy clinic, burns unit, in addition to laparoscopic and medical commission services, and computed tomography, radiology and magnetic resonance imaging.

The second floor of the hospital includes six operating rooms and their facilities, a 16-bed intensive care unit, administrative and educational services, medical records, human resources department, and inpatient department. It has 102 beds and four quarantine rooms.

The hospital has three main entrances, an ambulance entrance, a central kitchen, a central laundry and a morgue, a helicopter helipad on the roof to transport urgent cases, which is known as the air ambulance.

The emergency building in the hospital occupies an area of 6,000 square meters and has a capacity of 30 beds. It handles emergencies, injuries, accidents and burns, as well as equipping the building with rooms for minor operations.

The hospital is set to serve visitors from Ras Laffan and the neighboring areas and is expected to receive 1,000 to 1,200 visitors every day.

The construction work of the hospital lasted three years and was built according to the approved standard specifications, especially in terms of construction of green buildings.

The construction of the second labor hospital in the State of Qatar comes as part of the state’s keenness on providing high quality health services to all segments of society within the framework of Qatar National Vision 2030

Source: FANA