King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, is scheduled to patronize the inaugural function of the King Abdullah Medical City in Makkah and Mina's Al-Wadi Hospital on Saturday. The hospitals have been designed to serve Makkah's residents and Haj and Umrah pilgrims all year long, according to Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeah, the Minister of Health. Dr. Al-Rabeah said King Abdullah's attendance reflects the keenness of the judicious leadership to provide quality medical services to citizens and pilgrims. “The giant King Abdullah Medical City (KAMC) is the third referral specialist medical city in the country after King Fahd Medical City and King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam,” said Dr. Al-Rabeah. He said the area of the KAMC is 800,000 square meters. It was constructed with the National Project for Comprehensive Health Care, through which the ministry of Health aims to provide high quality medical services which will fulfill the aspirations and ambitions of the leadership. It is set to meet all the requirements of citizens. He said the accommodation capacity of the five-story building is 1500 beds, of which 500 beds have been allotted to the specialist referral hospital. He pointed out that the hospital covers all rare specializations. He said that the medical complex has digital operation rooms that are designed to be used by surgeons, surgical residents, anesthetists, operation room nurses and other surgical staff. This surgery package integrates booking, clinical and patients' data to provide a variety of administration and clinical reports. Apart from this, he said the specialist referral hospital includes 500 beds for gynecology obstetrics and children. Dr. Al-Rabeah said the 200-bed Wadi Mina Hospital has been designed to provide quality medical services to residents in Makkah, and those coming on Haj and Umrah. The hospital has 24 emergency beds, 24 beds for heat exhaustion patients, 24 intensive care beds, six observation beds, four beds for resuscitation, and a number of admission beds.
