In an effort to develop and provide health care services for citizens in the Sultanate, Ministry of Health is currently working on significant health projects at a total cost of more than RO73 million, announced Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Obaid Al Saidi, minister of health. Al Saidi pointed out that these projects indicate a [...]

Procedures for establishing a centre for spinal cord surgeries began to take effect recently. The centre will be set up in the Wilayat of Saham in the Batinah region, said Murtadha al Jamalani, one of the officials concerned with the project. The centre will be the first Omani-German venture of its kind to offer specialised [...]

DM Healthcare, a $300m group and one of the largest healthcare service providers in the region, introduced their new corporate brand identity ‘Aster’ today. The new brand identity was revealed by the Chairman Dr. Azad Moopen, in presence of H.H Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, officials of DM Healthcare and media. The [...]

MUSCAT: ‘Malaria Awareness Week’ is being observed uptil April 23 in the Sultanate of Oman. Indigenous malaria has been eradicated totally by the ceaseless efforts of the Malaria Eradication Department of the Ministry of Health. About 18 years ago malaria was rampant in the local Omani population, where as at present the only recorded cases [...]

As part of a free two year Roadshow and Screening Campaign, a Mobile Clinic of EIN Gulf Lamboo has arrived in Oman and is on display in front of Khoula Hospital. The trailer reached Oman after touring UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar during the last few months. Earlier Sabah Al Aribaya featured the [...]

iCT Health, the healthcare technology company that provides innovative and powerful life care solutions that transform care delivery, has successfully installed its tightly-integrated web-based Picture Archival and Communications System (PACS) at Oman’s Khoula Hospital. As of today, the new PACS solution, which is an upgrade of the hospital’s existing PACS system and uses the ‘Sunray [...]

Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), a member of Tecom investments, today announced Oman Insurance Company (OIC) will be the first to cover all 12 streams of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Treatments licensed by its regulatory body – the Center for Healthcare Planning and Quality (CPQ). Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Unani Medicine, Osteopathy, Therapeutic Massage, [...]

By Dr. Hussein Shehadeh – MUSCAT Nearly four decades on, the fruits of the Oman’s Renaissance are as copious as they are pervasive. A nation once steeped in ignorance, poverty and despair now finds itself on the cusp of prosperity complete with the trappings of a modem state that many other countries can only aspire [...]

MUSCAT Fathima Healthcare Management Services has made it to the Sultanate with their first footstep in Ghobra. Anil Wadhwa, Indian Ambassador to the Sultanate formally opened the branch. “Our motto is to make healthcare programme affordable to people from all walks of life and it is a part of our Corporate Social Responsibility”, Dr K [...]

MUSCAT — “There’s a great deal of change in the commercial environment right now,” said Rashmi Mitra of Knowledge Horizon at the start of the training centre’s new Effective Manager Course, part of Knowledge Horizon’s popular Training Time programme. “There’s tremendous pressure to perform well at all levels, especially on management to deliver results,” she [...]

Michael Lenarduzzi, CEO of The Wave, Muscat, accepted the award for Best International Architecture which was announced at a glittering ceremony held in San Diego, California this week. At this year’s CNBC International Property Awards, an independent panel of 52 judges considered entries from 207 countries and The Wave, Muscat competed against 29 award-winning finalists [...]

Muscat, Nov 14 (ONA) Al Hail Health Centre of the Health Ministry was opened at the Wilayat A’Seeb today under the auspices of Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah al Busaidi, Wali of A’Seeb. Present at the ceremony were honourable members of the State Council, members of Majlis A’Shura, Walis of Muscat Governorate, Health Ministry’s officials and [...]

Having weathered the financial storm better than most, Oman’s banks are reassessing their strategies and looking for new sources of growth. Through the global financial crisis, Omani banks have proved remarkably resilient, due to adequate provisioning and low exposure to the toxic assets that caused such turmoil elsewhere. The banking sector has a largely domestic [...]

MUSCAT — Bahwan Healthcare Centre, a SBG Suhail Bahwan Group venture in Oman, has partnered with Green Air Technology of the UAE to introduce the Nasa-developed AiroCide technology, a unique and patented airborne contamination control device delivering 99.99987 per cent clean air. AiroCide uses patented and proprietary Nasa-developed technology to eliminate airborne pathogenic and non-pathogenic [...]

14 September 2009 © Times of Oman 2009 MUSCAT — An official source at the department of private health institutions affairs at the Ministry of HealthMinistry of Health said here yesterday that the ministryministry has approved some private health institutions as centres to dispense H1N1 medications free of charge for citizens and residents. The medical [...]