The Health Insurance Hospitals Company (Daman) announced that MP Majed Al-Mutairi visited Daman Hospital in the Ahmadi Governorate, following the supply of power to its hospitals in the Ahmadi and Jahra governorates, in a step that would speed up completion of work in its health facilities and prepare an integrated health care system to start receiving beneficiaries of its service.
MP Al-Mutairi was received by the CEO of Daman company Thamer Arab, who accompanied him on an inspection tour around the hospital and briefed him on work development and the company’s operational plans for the next stage, reports a local Arabic daily.
The company added in a statement that the delivery of electricity to hospitals comes as part of a series of important steps, which reflects its strategies in developing projects and starting operations, by building and equipping the two hospitals and operating five primary health care centers according to the requirements of the Ministry of Health, to announce the company’s readiness to receive its target segment of residents working in the private sector (Article 18) and their families.
It is expected to finally receive Daman hospitals in the Ahmadi and Jahra governorates at the beginning of the first quarter of next year, as work is underway to receive and supply modern medical devices and equipment that have been selected with the highest standards and techniques approved globally.
The hospitals will provide many medical services in specialties, most notably family medicine, dentistry, pediatrics, surgery, emergency, gynecology, internal medicine, orthopedics, physiotherapy and intensive care with pharmacy, radiology, and diagnostic imaging and laboratory services.
Each hospital consists of 5 floors and a basement with a 330-bed capacity, 14 operating theaters, 21 intensive care units for adults and newborns, laboratories, a radiology department and an emergency department linked to an air ambulance helipad, outpatient clinics, in addition to a pharmacy department.
Each hospital has a car parking facility with a capacity of more than 550 cars.
Daman is currently operating four primary health care centers in Hawally, Farwaniya, Dajeej and Jahra, which are currently being operated as private centers that receive all health care seekers in preparation for the opening of the insurance system and receiving the segment that will benefit from its services.
It also plans to open a new primary health care center in the Ahmadi Governorate soon.
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