Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz, the Deputy Premier and Commander of the National Guard will open the 1,095-bed King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, the largest medical facility in the Middle East, on Tuesday. The medical city comprising four hospitals was established at a cost of SR2.3 billion. Health Minister Dr. Hamad Al-Manie said the decision to open the huge medical complex was taken with the support of the crown prince. "We made arrangements for the opening with the moral and material support of the crown prince," Okaz Arabic daily quoted him as saying. The complex comprises a 459-bed main hospital with specialty clinics to treat chronic diseases, a 50-bed rehabilitation unit, a 300-bed pediatric hospital, a 250- bed maternity hospital, and a psychiatric hospital. The complex also includes an ambulatory care building, an administration building, a services building, staff housing units, and a community center including a mosque, shopping center, a school, a day care center and a recreational center. --More 1041 Local Time 0741 GMT
