DOHA: Al Ahli Hospital has announced plans to open a polyclinic in Al Wakra as its first branch during the third quarter of the year.
The general assembly of Medicare Group that owns the hospital on Monday approved 50 percent cash dividend for 2014, amounting to QR5 per share.
Al Ahli Hospital Company, now renamed Medicare Group QSC as a public shareholding company, realised significant growth in five years in a row, Chairman Sheikh Abdullah bin Thani Al Thani told the general assembly meeting at Ezdan Tower.
The strong performance of the hospital last year raised the net operational profits by 103 percent, from QR89.5m in 2013 to 181.5m in 2014 and this reflected positively on the dividend distribution, he added.
The impressive results were achieved due to expansion of the hospital’s capacity by increasing the number of sections, beds, doctors, nurses, surgery and obstetrics rooms and installation of latest medical equipment.
Inclusion of the hospital in the national health insurance network and a subsequent increase in the number of patients made the hospital under pressure but we overcame that through advance preparation reflected in the expansions in different sectors, he added.
The chairman explained that a unified insurance agreement signed with health insurance companies played a significant role in collecting entitled dues for the hospital and this helped realise the current profit.
He disclosed that the hospital has set a strategic plan to cover all parts of Doha and accordingly the number of beds has been raised this year to 40, and some top specialists will be recruited to add more value to its quality services.
Khalid Mohammed Al Emadi, CEO, Al Ahli Hospital (Medicare group), said the company has doubled its profits for two years in a row and the hospital’s share in National Health Insurance Scheme (Seha) reached 33 percent of the scheme’s beneficiaries last year. He said the Group has a strategy to cover all parts of the country and further improve quality of services.
A new polyclinic as a branch of the hospital will be opened in Al Wakra in the third quarter of this year. The Group is going to invest QR135m in the establishment of a specialised bone centre to be completed next year.
Al Emadi said the Group also has plans to introduce new sections for the first time in Qatar such as brain rehabilitation centre (phobias treatment) and upgrade the emergency section and some clinics this year.
Jamal Hammad, Deputy CEO of the group, said the current share of Al Ahli hospital in the local market ranges between 30 and 35 percent and this will increase in the coming period.
The general assembly approved the budget and the board members for another three years.
The Peninsula
