Shaikh Khalifa Medical City

Shaikh Khalifa Medical City is a new tertiary care medical center, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is administered by the Abu Dhabi General Health Authority.

The hospital initially opened its doors to the 1st patients on February 28, 2000, under the direct management of a Canadian company, InterHealth Canada, under the auspices of the General Health Authority. Its initial name was the Shaikh Khalifa Medical Center (SKMC). In 2005, it grew exponentially by merging with 2 adjacent facilities, the Central Hospital, and the Al Jazeerah Hospital, and became the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City.

Today it has close to 600 acute medical beds, and offers a wide variety of Western-style medical and surgical treatment and diagnostic facilities.

One of the original aims in setting up SKMC was to provide a high-quality international standard-of-care facility so that local Emirati patients would not have to travel out of the country to Europe or North America for their medical treatments. Subsequently, the facility was expanded to accommodate the treatment of non-local patients where adequate care was not available elsewhere.

Outpatient Department at SKMC - July, 2000

Footnotes and references
1. http://www.skmc.gov.ae/ - official website of SKMC. Note the alternate spelling of Shaikh as Sheikh.

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Tags: SKMC, Shaikh Khalifa Medical Center