Medical Care in Qatar:
1.Hamad
Medical Corporation (HMC):
In 1982 the Hamad
Medical Corporation (HMC) was founded. All
hospitals, health centers and outpatient clinics
were brought under its umbrella. HMC was also
entrusted with running the Primary Health Care
Clinics throughout the country. Now all major
operations such as kidney transplant, plastic, open
heart and cardiovascular surgeries are carried out
locally. Among the internationally reputed hospitals
HMC is affiliated with, for consultations and
exchange of expertise, are Mayo Clinic, Cornell
Medical School , and Thorax Center in the
Netherlands.
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A doctor per
500 people:
By the end of 1998 the
number of qualified medical staff employed by the
Ministry of Public Health and Hamad Medical
Corporation had risen to 4,500. The total number of
beds in the four government hospitals stood at over
1,250.The establishment of the Hamad International
Medical Training Centre in 2000 enhanced the
efficiency of the nursing staff in the Corporation.
The doctor- patient ratio rose to 500 patients for
every doctor, 3 dentists and 51 nurses for every
10000 people, one of the highest ratios in the Arab
countries. The number of medical staff steadily
increased. By the end of 2003 there were 939 doctors
and 2,688 nurses at HMC.
2.
Ash-shamal Hospital
Work on Ash-shamal hospital, located midway between
Al Khor and Al Zakhera, began in March 2000. The
hospital occupies 192,500 square meters of which
20,000 square meters will be set aside for the
ancillary buildings, landscaping and parking lots
accommodating 320 cars.
The total cost of the project will be QR 85 million,
and the bed capacity will be 100. The hospital will
have an obstetrics and gynecology section, an
emergency and accidents section, operating theaters,
a morgue, laboratories and pharmacies.
Four hospitals will be built including 3 specialized
hospitals affiliated to HMC. One, with 96 beds will
be for heart diseases; the second with 350 beds will
be pediatrics and the third with 80 beds for
orthopedics.
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