Preliminary designs have been completed for the King Abdulla Medical City, a massive healthcare project to be developed at a $1 billion investment in Bahrain, said senior government officials.
The project is being funded through a SR1 billion ($267 million) grant from the late Saudi King Abdulla bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and will be built on a one-million-sq-m plot donated by His Majesty King Hamad at Durrat Al Bahrain, one of the largest towns in southern Bahrain, they stated.
The medical city will be a multiple-phased mixed-use development comprising academic and medical facilities, a research centre, on-site accommodation and other communal facilities to create a self-sustained campus, said the officials.
The Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs & Urban Planning has been assigned with implementation of the infrastructure works for the project, based on the BD16.5 million ($43.4 million) financing contract signed between Bahrain and the Saudi Development Fund, stated Ahmed Al Khayyat, the works affairs undersecretary at the ministry.
The scope of work includes the main 66KV power station, a sewage treatment plant, water collection tanks besides sewerage, irrigation and stormwater drainage networks. The ministry will also handle the internal and external roads networks, lighting, telecommunication network and aesthetic works.
Al Khayyat was speaking after a meeting with the officials of Saud Consult, the project consultants for King Abdulla Medical City, in the presence of advisor Nabeel Al Khalfan and Hassan Al Arrayedh from the Electricity & Water Authority and representatives from the Arab Gulf University Hisham Jaffar (HAJ), the project owner.
The final designs for the project are being readied, he added.-TradeArabia News Service
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