GE, AMC partner for new pulmonary & chronic care hospital in Riyadh

The performance-based partnership with GE is expected to drive significant value for patients, Anfas Medical Care and the Saudi health care sector at large.

Saudi Arabia’s Anfas Medical Care (AMC) and GE Healthcare have signed a SR113 million ($30 million) agreement supporting AMC’s new 120-bed specialty facility. It will cater to chronic pulmonary patients requiring long-term rehabilitation and intensive care.
The performance-based partnership with GE is expected to drive significant value for patients, Anfas Medical Care and the Saudi health care sector at large.
The hospital, powered by GE, will be based in Riyadh and is set to open in 2018 in collaboration with Houston Methodist Hospitals.
The comprehensive GE solution is a new approach for both the Kingdom and the region’s health sector, combining technology provision, equipment servicing and management under a “Managed Equipment Services” (MES) framework.
Dr. Mamdouh Al-Baqumi, founder and CEO of AMC, said: “This partnership model presents an entirely new framework to accelerate the development of private sector health care services in the Kingdom, allowing us to scale up our operational and technical levels to world-class standards. It will enable us to facilitate better diagnosis and patient monitoring for our physicians, and enable us to always be at the forefront of cutting-edge medical technology for the benefit our patients.”
Jalil Juha, president & CEO, GE Healthcare Saudi Arabia, said: “Through this new model of health care delivery for Saudi Arabia, we are providing comprehensive, long-term support to our partner in building a robust and sustainable health care infrastructure.
The MES model brings many core strengths that improves quality, reduces cost and increases access to health care delivery. With this agreement, GE and AMC can further contribute to the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 to drive quality and efficient health care services, as well as supporting the ministry’s focus on nurturing a buoyant private health care sector.”
The partnership follows the recent formation of a new consortium led by AMC for the development of a new Healthcare Village in Jeddah, set to include a rehabilitation, neurology and sports injury center, and long-term paediatric hospital. The consortium includes Dallah Al-Baraka as the strategic partner, Aldukheil Financial Group as the financial adviser and AMI Saudi Arabia Ltd. as the local operations partner on the development. GE has been selected as the consortium’s key technology and solutions partner.