Khalifa Hospital In RAK
Contractors have been given the green light to start building Khalifa Hospital RAK. The only other government hospital in RAK as far as I know is Saqr Hospital. There are four government hospitals in RAK currently in addition to 71 private clinics. According to 2004 statistics, these hospitals together should service 205,000 people. To put this number in prospective, in my previous job, we used to service 330,000 people but we were one of the busiest hospitals in the region. There is no indication as to who will administer the new hospital but as its outside Abu Dhabi and Dubai, I suspect MoH staff will be directly responsible for its management (compare to Khalifa hospital in the capital which is administered by Cleveland).
To say that RAK hospitals were managing would be an exaggeration. Patients used to over flow into Khalifa Hospital - Ajman and ultimately into one of the hospitals in the capital, usually SKMC. Ajman region has 158,000 people to service without this extra load and similarly the capital hospitals service 860,000 people not including people in Al-Ain and the Western region. I am getting a headache just thinking how the resources are allocated with a constant shift of patients from one place to the next and four independent bodies spending from four seperate budgets on these hospitals.
In any case, congratulations to the people of RAK (I’d expect their antinatal and paediatrics mortality rates to improve), and congratulations to the MoH as this will improve their overall service performance.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Actually, there are 2 major hospitals in RAK: Saqr hospital, and another one popularly known as Seif hospital (I am sure it has a longer official name that I can’t remember).
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:17 am
thanks rubicon for pointing that out. After more digging, there are infact 4 gov hospitals in RAK. I fixed the mistake above.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:31 am
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August 22nd, 2007 at 9:00 pm
aysha, I dont think many people are interested in actually taking part in the decision making process. I am saddened to say that people are used to big decisions being made for them by the powers that be.
About the medical *firms* that are now taking over managing hospitals, this is only happening in AD as part of the new strategy for health. While I personaly dont agree with the end goal of this process, I think the way they are going about to achieve it is really good. As for what standards and protocols they apply, its something i want to know myself and am still looking for more information about it. As soon as i find out, i will post it here. :) Things are still not very clear.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
Actually, it has also showed up in Dubai, like the new Rashid Hospital Trauma Centre being managed by a Canadian company. Not sure if it’s for the best but the doctors there seem to think it’s a lot of money being spent, in not the most efficient way :/
http://www.interhealthcanada.com/projects/projects.asp?categorycode=ART00193&ID=ART00164&SubID=ART00186
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 am
^Oops, seems that same company started with SKMC in 1999, so nothing new there!
August 28th, 2007 at 5:36 am
I hope for 1 thing, they don’t give ‘rak’ the responsibility to build or manage this hospital.