Saudi set to build world's largest dialysis centre

GOOD HEALTH: Saudi Arabia's healthcare system will be boosted by the world's largest kidney dialysis centre. (Getty Images - for illustrative purposes only)

A Saudi hospital has unveiled plans to install the world's largest kidney dialysis centre to be built over the next 18 months.

King Fahad Hospital in Jeddah will house the unit which will be built at an estimated cost of SR60 million ($16m).

A contract for the centre has been signed by Assistant Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, and Minister of Health Dr Abdullah Al-Rabeah, Saudi Gazette reported on Monday.

Majd-al-Ola contracting establishment has been awarded the contract to build the Prince Abdul-Majeed Bin Abdul Aziz Centre for Kidneys, which will have 140 dialysis machines.

The unit will serve more than 800 renal failure patients and will employ 17 consultants, 34 resident-physicians and specialists as well as 280 nurses, the paper added.

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