New Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah, Oman, will have 700 beds
Omans Health Ministry is evaluating bids from companies for the contract to build the New Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah.
New Sultan Qaboos Hospital bidders
- Al-Shanfri Trading Company
- Bahwan Contracting Company (local)
- Bam (Netherlands)
- Carillion Alawi (UK)
- Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) (Athens-based)
- Douglas OHI (local/UK)
- Federici Sterling (Italy) Batco (Lebanon)
- Galfar Engineering & Contracting (local)
- Golden Horizon Trading & Contracting (local)
- Hasan bin Juma bin Backer Trading & Contracting (local)
- Joannou & Paraskevaides (J&P) (Cyprus)
- Larsen & Toubro (India)
- Nagarjuna Construction Company International (local)
- National United Engineering Contracting Company (local)
- Oman National Engineering & Investment Company (local)
- Oman Shapoorji Construction Company (local/India)
- Sarooj Construction Company (local)
- Shaksy Engineering Services (local)
- Teejan Trading & Contracting (local)
The scope of work involves the construction of a 700-bed hospital and associated facilities. The five-story building, which will cover an area of 200,000 square metres, will offer adult and paediatric emergency services, physiotherapy, nuclear medicine, dietary services, warehouses, a pharmacy and a laboratory. The original deadline for bids was 21 April.
Oman boosted its healthcare budget in 2014 to RO1.3bn ($3.4bn), as demand has risen for more hospitals in the sultanate. Its population is growing by 2.5 per cent, or 54,000 people, every year. Hospital outpatient visits increased from 9.9 million in 2000 to 12.5 million in 2010.
Last October, Darwish bin Saif bin Said al-Maharbi, undersecretary for finance and administration affairs at the Health Ministry, said that more funding is needed to build the requisite number of hospitals in the country.
Life expectancy in Oman increased from 49.3 years in 1970 to 74 years in 2010, which has created new health challenges, he added.
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