The management of King Faisal Hospital signed a one-year contract with an architectural firm to design the SR96 million King Abdullah Oncology and Liver Center. Dr. Qassim Al-Qassabi, executive supervisor general of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, said the firm will prepare designs for four projects which will be tendered for public bidding. The oncology center is expected to be constructed over an area of 72,000 square meters and will have 300 beds to meet the growing number of patients suffering from cancer and hepatitis. The center will have 10 operation theaters, a kidney dialysis unit, an ICU for adults and a separate ICU with 10 beds for children. Studies show the cases of hepatitis will reach 14,000 by 2020, Al-Qassabi said. Besides treatment of malignant tumors, the center will specialize in different kinds of liver disease treatments or even liver transplants. Last year doctors at the hospital performed 38 liver transplant operations and 95 percent of them were successful.
