UK based The International Hospitals Group (IHG) announced in a statement that, it has won a contract to design and build major hospitals in Oman.
The project locations will be in Salalah, Al Suwaiq and Khasab. The hospitals will be build under a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) arrangement with Oman’s Ministry of Health.
The three hospitals will be equipped to provide intensive care, emergency services and specialist baby care.
Investments in all three hospital projects were estimated as RO 270 million (US $702.2 million).
IHG scope of work includes design, construction and services package for all three hospitals. Work will also include the construction of emergency power systems, maintenance facilities, roads and other associated infrastructure.
In Salalah, the ministry has outlined plans for the construction of a new Sultan Qaboos Hospital on over 200,000 sq metres of land with a capacity of 620 beds.
Al Suwaiq is a 260-bed institution equipped where as the Khasab hospital, will be equipped with 150 beds.
IHG has secured funding of around £500 million (approximately RO 250 million) from UK Export Finance (UKEF), Britain’s principal export credit agency, to support the construction of above projects.
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