HAMAD MEDICAL CITY – QATAR GIANT MEDICAL COMPLEX

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut MORE than 7,000 construction workers are toiling around the clock on the first phase of the Middle East's largest integrated medical complex in the oil rich Gulf state of Qatar, with top medical positions, including nursing managers, expected to go to British applicants. The first phase of the 3.2 billion Qatari Riyals (GBPounds 466.5 million or US$824.6 million) medical complex is to be completed by August 2006 in time for the Asian Games, which will be hosted in Doha in December. Once the games are over some of the facilities used ...


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