ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi General Services Company (Musanada) said over 80 per cent of the construction work at the Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City has been completed and is due for handover this year, said a report. The Dh4 billion ($1.08 billion) medical city is coming up in the Al Mafraq area of the UAE capital over a 300,000 sq m area, reported the state news agency Wam.
It will boast of 732 hospital beds, two royal and 36 VIP suites besides parking facilities that can accommodate 1,610 cars, mostly as covered parking, it stated. On completion, the facility will be handed over to Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha).
With several operating rooms and departments for emergency, intensive care, maternity, a medical research center, 132 beds for cases referred to intensive care, including a neonatal intensive care unit, the medical city is poised to become one of the largest intensive care medical facilities at the regional level, stated the report.
It consists of several buildings, including the main hospital building, external clinics building and utility buildings. The medical city boasts of two helipads and large external landscapes carefully designed following a special study to ensure comfort and tranquility and provide an appropriate healing environment, it added.
