Tuesday 23 / April / 2024
Muscat: Construction work on the new Salalah, Suwaiq, and Khasab hospitals has begun, at a total cost of OMR269 million.
Dr. Ahmed Al Saidi, Minister of Health, announced that preparations for the construction work of the New Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah, the Suwaiq Hospital, and the Khasab Hospital have been initiated.
At an estimated cost of OMR135 million, the new hospital in Salalah will be built on a total area of 200,000 sq. m, with approximately 700 beds spread over departments such as a burn unit, paediatrics, adult ICUs, as well as 25 maternity rooms. In addition to two operating rooms, there will also be an integrated unit for accidents and emergencies and an isolation ward.
The hospital will have a radiology department, which includes three x-ray machines, two CT scan machines, one MRI machine, ultrasound devices, a bone-density device, a mammogram machine, a pharmacy, and medical laboratories.
The new Suwaiq Hospital will be built on an area of 278,349 sq. m. The three-floor hospital will have a 250-bed capacity.
The hospital will comprise an adult, paediatric and coronary care unit, as well as a special care baby unit. Different sub-speciality wards such as surgical, medical, psychiatric, obstetrics and gynecology, and paediatrics wards will also be available.
According to the Ministry of Health, the construction work, design, supervision and medical equipment for Al-Suwaiq Hospital will amount to OMR77 million.
As the smallest of the three projects, the new Khasab Hospital will be built on land with a total area of 100,000 sq. m, and will include 20 outpatient clinics, in addition to 150 beds spread over the men's and women's various inpatient wards.
It will also include a day-care unit with eight beds, a nephrology unit with 10 beds, a premature healthcare unit, an ICU, which includes five beds for adults and five beds for children, four beds in the burns unit and an integrated accident and emergency unit.
The overall cost of this project amounts to OMR57 million.
