- Alberto de Rosa, president of the health group, attends the ceremony to mark the completion of the works together with the CEO of Dhaman Hospitals Company, Thamer Arab, the Spanish ambassador to Kuwait and several senior members of the Kuwaiti government.
- Spanish ambassador Miguel Aguilar highlights the Ribera Group’s contribution to the project: “it has the will and capacity to strengthen cooperation in the field of health, and is working with the Kuwaiti side to explore new opportunities and inject new impetus into cooperation between the two countries”.
Dhaman and Ribera inaugurate the second public-private partnership hospital in Kuwait, which completes the network initially planned to provide healthcare to more than two million citizens in this country.
The president of the Ribera health group, Alberto de Rosa, attended this week the inauguration and completion of the works of this new health centre in the region of Jahra which, in its 82,000 square metres, has 330 beds, 14 operating theatres, 21 intensive care units for adults and newborns, 75 consultations for the main specialities, a central pharmacy that operates with an automated system, Radiology, laboratory and an emergency unit with heliport. It will begin to see patients in the second quarter of the year.
Alberto de Rosa was very proud of the work carried out by the Ribera team in Kuwait and also highlighted the importance of this project, which consolidates Ribera’s presence in the Middle East and boosts its strategic consultancy area to implement its responsible health model. “We have more than 25 years of experience in the integrated management of hospitals and primary care centres, with a technological base and a capitative financing model, in which Ribera is a pioneer,” explained De Rosa. And in this way, he adds, “we help the different administrations in the sustainability of health systems, thanks to public-private collaboration”. In fact, Ribera’s experience and leadership in this field was one of the aspects highlighted at the inauguration of the Jahra hospital by the CEO of Dhaman Hospitals Company, promoter of the project and Ribera’s partner in Kuwait, as well as by the various representatives of the Kuwaiti government who attended the event and the Spanish ambassador to Kuwait, Miguel Aguilar. The CEO of Dhaman, Thamer Arab, assured that “in cooperation with a world expert in the management of a health system of this size, the Spanish corporation Ribera”, their intention is to develop “a new and advanced model in health care” with many advantages, among which he highlighted that “it will reduce the pressure on the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health and this will be reflected in the quality of health services offered to Kuwaiti citizens”.
Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) official Khaled Al-Hassoun congratulated Dhaman and its partner Ribera for completing construction work on the hospital, which he described as “one of the projects in the state’s development plan”. “This project is vital as it will contribute to achieving a quantum leap in the healthcare sector,” he assured, while announcing that “we are counting on them to contribute to alleviating the financial burdens, related to healthcare in the state budget, especially in overcoming the challenges currently facing the sector.”
In a similar vein, Faleh Al-Dosari of Kuwait’s Supreme Council for Planning and Development stressed that Dhaman is one of the strategic projects in the state’s development plan and Kuwait Vision 2035. “An effective and sustainable health system is the cornerstone of progress in all fields. It is managed through the mechanism, planning and implementation of the private sector, in partnership with the government sector, which supports the achievement of goals in line with health trends in the world,” he said.
For his part, the Spanish ambassador to Kuwait, Miguel Aguilar, expressed his admiration for the health model in this country and his government’s desire to “make a qualitative leap in the health sector in the State of Kuwait, with this model that is being applied for the first time in collaboration with the Spanish international operator Ribera”. He added: “The Spanish side has the will and the capacity to strengthen cooperation in the field of health, and is working with the Kuwaiti side to explore new opportunities and give new impetus to cooperation between the two countries.
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