Saudi firm Al Fouzan Trading and General Construction Company secures a deal to construct King Abdulla Medical City in Bahrain.
The project has been awarded by Bahrain’s Arabian Gulf University (AGU). Completion period of the project is 30 months.
The Saudi contractor will be officially sign the contract within the next few days.
The medical city will consist of a 288-bed medical Centre that is in compliance with the highest international standards and specifications in this field.
It will also include a number of research and excellence centers, as well as a college of medicine, making it a comprehensive Centre for medical education and medical services that would offer its services to patients from Bahrain and neighboring GCC states, it stated
The Project is being funded by a $1-billion grant from the late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, will come up over a sprawling one-million sq-m area near Askar which has been donated by His Majesty King Hamad, according to an earlier report.
According to Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Khayat, the undersecretary of the ministry, the work on the medical city project will be implemented in four phases.
“The first phase includes the implementation of electricity, water and sewage networks, and fire-fighting, irrigation and rainwater drainage networks, that is in addition to the construction of internal roads and installation of street lighting,” he explained.
The second phase will be the construction of a main power plant to supply the city with electricity, while the third and fourth phases will include the construction of a sewage plant and the development of the roads networks surrounding and leading to the city, he added
