Expansion at Mubarak al-Kabeer hospital

In its endeavor to streamline health care services, the ministry of Health celebrated today the start of a project to update and expand all operation rooms at the Mubarak al-Kabeer hospital.  On hand at the hospital to mark the occasion was the minister of Health Dr Ali al-Ebaidi, who in a speech he delivered there, said that all care was taken to equip the newly-renovaed operation rooms with the latest medical facilities, so much so that medical students at the college of medicine could follow surgeons'operations at the hospital in real time through video uplinks. Surgeons conducting operations in the new operation rooms would be able to speak directly with the students and instruct them as to the course of specific operations they were doing.  The minister said that updating the operation rooms has been a major undertaking which was ably handled by the private sector, and that the entire project of renovating the rooms was a vivid instance of success embodying the close relationship between both public and private sectors.  He emphasized that this project was only one of many the ministry was planning within the present parameters of the nation's development plan.  The updating and expansion at the Mubarak al-Kabeer hospital involved increasing the number of operation rooms to ten, to the cost of KD 3.1 million, said Dr Khalid Al-Abdulghani, director of the Hawalli area health care sector.