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Private Players Eye Oman’s Health Sector
MUSCAT - A new privately-run hospital due to open here on Monday after another started functioning last week reflects the success of the country’s efforts to attract private players to invest in its health sector, officials said.
The new facility, Kims Oman Hospital’ is a joint venture between the Trivandrum-based Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, a 450-bed multi-speciality tertiary care hospital, and leading Omani businessman Shaikh Mustahil Al Maashani. The hospital, to be inaugurated by Health Minister Dr Ali bin Mohammed bin Moosa, will have 50 beds initially and will be expanded to 150 later, Executive Director VMA Hakkim said. It will open with 16 doctors, the number rising to 25 within a few weeks, he added.
“It will be a multi-speciality hospital providing high secondary care,” Hakkim said. “There is a big demand for services of private hospitals in Oman, particularly from expatriates,” he pointed out, adding that the promoters were planning to expand operations to specialised areas of healthcare and to other parts of the sultanate. “We have already started conducting studies,” he said.
Kims currently runs similar hospitals in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Hakkim said, adding that hospitals would be opened in Dubai and Kuwait shortly.
“The private sector has been assigned a key role in the future development of health services in Oman,” Dr Salim al Zinji, Director of Private Health Establishments at the ministry, said.
He added the ministry supported private ventures “as they contribute to providing healthcare for locals and expatriates in the country.” He noted that several investors and hospital chains had shown a keen interest in setting up facilities in Oman, and referred to the opening last week of the Al Raffah Hospital in Ghubrah.
Al Raffah, set up by Dubai-based Dr Moopen’s Group, is the sultanate’s second private hospital. “In the coming months more new health facilities will be added by the private sector. I call upon them to provide high quality service,” Zinji said. The RO5 million Al Raffah hospital marks the beginning of a major expansion programme for the group in Oman. Its existing medical centre in Sohar in the sultanate’s Batinah region, will be expanded to a full-fledged hospital in the next six months at a cost of around RO3.5 million, Dr Azad Moopen, group chairman, said.
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