The healthcare sector in the Governorate of Dhofar will receive a revamp with the Wilayat Al Mazyona hospital – a RO15mn investment that began construction in March this year [2022].

The Wilayat Al Mazyona Hospital project in the Dhofar Governorate will span an area of ​90,000 sq.m and the construction area of ​​the hospital is about 15,276 sq.m. The total cost of the hospital is projected to be RO15,359,970.

Eng. Jamal bin Salem Al Shanfari, Director-General of General Directorate of Projects and Engineering Affairs, Ministry of Health (MoH)

Eng. Jamal bin Salem Al Shanfari, the Director-General of the General Directorate of Projects and Engineering Affairs at the Ministry of Health, said in a statement to the Oman News Agency: “The hospital is one of the vital projects for the health sector of the Governorate in general and the state in particular, in order to provide medical services to citizens and residents of the Wilayat.

“[This is] in line with the Ministry’s strategy towards implementing the Oman Vision 2040 to provide comprehensive coverage of the health system.”

Mr. Al Shanfari explained that the hospital’s main structure will include clinics for general medicine; internal medicine; dentistry; paediatrics; surgery; ear, nose and throat (ENT); and ophthalmology, in addition to the expanded program of immunisation and obstetrics, and gynaecology clinics.

He added that Al Mazyona Hospital will contain 50 beds and different wards for men, children, women and childbirth, as well as an accident and emergency unit, alongside dialysis units, a radiology department, a laboratory, a maternity hall, and a biomedical engineering workshop, a central sterilisation unit, a medical store, a general store, and the project’s support services.

It is worth noting that the Al Mazyona Hospital project comes within the efforts of the Ministry of Health (MoH) to develop the healthcare system in the Sultanate and raise its efficiency in line with the population increase and the requirements of the states and governorates.