As the saying goes a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Health care is important to the society as people fall ill, accidents and emergencies do arise and hospitals are needed to diagnose, treat and manage different types of ailments. Many of the people’s aspirations and desires cannot be met without longer, healthier and happy lives.
People in Qatar are blessed with an excellent and well-organised health care system right from primary health care to tertiary and advanced treatment facilities available in the country. In the current decade, Qatar has been witnessing steady development in the field of health care with the opening of new facilities and re-organisation of the existing ones.
The opening of the three specialised hospitals on Sunday by the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Hamad Medical Corporation’s Medical City complex is the latest addition to Qatar’s health care system. The hospitals – Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI), the Ambulatory Care Centre (ACC) and Women’s Wellness and Research Centre (WWRC) - have been providing services throughout the year, recording over 90,000 outpatient.
As part of the region’s biggest health care facility expansion project, the hospitals will have 500 new hospital beds and 3,000 well-trained clinical and support staff. These facilities are equipped with the latest international medical technologies and follow highest medical standards giving patients access to an unprecedented level of care, improved services and special treatment. QRI, the region’s largest tertiary rehabilitation hospital, provides technologically advanced and patient-centred care and a highly integrated rehabilitation services.
At the ACC patients can access latest treatment options using advanced clinical and surgical practices offered in the same day and at a single dedicated location, thus saving a lot of time and money. The WWRC will provide a host of surgical and clinical services, from preconception to childbirth, post-natal-care and beyond.
The State of Qatar, under the visionary leadership of H H the Emir, has been keen in ensuring its citizens and residents as well are getting the best of facilities and care available in the world, whether it is in the field of medical care, infrastructure, education, scientific developments or other amenities.
Even though the blockading countries are exerting pressure in whatever way possible to choke the development process and thus hijack the peace and prosperity prevailing in Qatar, the leadership of the country has taken every possible steps to protect its people and made it a priority to provide the best to them.
So the country will never rest on the glorious laurels it has already achieved, but will tirelessly strive to take the developments to the next level, so that the country always holds its head high.
