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The Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNG-HA) is a government-funded health system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, founded in 1983.It is affiliated with the Ministry of National Guard and the Saudi Arabian National Guard, consisting of medical cities spread in many regions (Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Ahsa, Dammam, and Medina).
Other National Guard military cities were located at At-Ta'if, Dammam, and Jeddah, while a new headquarters complex was built in Riyadh in the early 1980s. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the regular army and the national guard were both small and of roughly equal strength.
The estimated $1.4bn King Abdullah Medical City (KAMC) is the third referral specialist medical city in the country after King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh and King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam. The area of the KAMC is 800,000m².
The National & Gulf Center for Evidence Based Health Practice has been established with the initiative of Bandar Al Knawy, Chief Executive Officer of National Guard Health Affairs, and with the support of former chief executive, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabiah in March 2004.
OPM-SANG was established in 1973 in an agreement signed by then Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in response to a request from former King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz. The contract to modernize the Saudi Arabian National Guard was awarded in 1975 to Vinnell Corporation.
The Saudi German Hospitals Group manages six multi-specialty tertiary hospitals in Saudi Arabia covering Jeddah, Aseer, Riyadh, Madinah, Ḥaʼil and its latest facility in Dammam, which opened in February 2020 with an area of 39,000 square meters and a capacity of up to 300 beds and 100 clinics.
The Albuquerque Veterans Administration Medical Center, at 2100 Ridgecrest, SE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was built in 1932. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 16 contributing buildings and a contributing structure on 40 acres (16 ha).
Albuquerque was an operational training facility, and the first class of 61 bombardiers from the Albuquerque base school graduated 7 March 1942. By 1945, Albuquerque's flying training field had turned out 5,719 bombardiers and 1,750 regular pilots for the B-24 bomber alone.