The Ministry of Works and Housing will announce today the seven companies shortlisted to build the main building of King Hamad Hospital in Muharraq.
The Acting Director of Strategic Projects at the ministry, Ghazi Saeed Al Saleh, said that the companies from Bahrain and Kuwait would be invited based on the criteria set by the financing fund for the project. The companies have been shortlisted based on the standards set by the ministry and agreed upon by the fund. The tenders by these companies will be evaluated in three months.
Al Saleh said that the foundation had been laid in the first phase of the hospital project and the second phase would begin next month and be completed by January 2006.
Al Saleh stressed that as part of efforts to complete the project at the earliest, the pillars of the main building would be set up at the beginning of next year and would be ready in 2007. The project designs and supervision have been assigned to Australian Hospital Design Group which is working in cooperation with Bahrain-based consultants Ismael Khonji Associates. The design architects Denton Corker Marshal have completed the structural designs.
The hospital in Busaiteen is being built on an area of about 227,000 square metres which would include Bahrain Medical University. The hospital will occupy about 63,000 square metres with three four-storey buildings separated by open areas and health assistance departments.
It will also include administrative offices and halls that can accommodate 250 people and an information department for the university. The parking area on the western side of the hospital will accommodate 950 cars .



photo: An artist’s impression of the hospital and (right) of one of the wards.
Last update on: 10-9-2005