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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.
It has three major hospitals: King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital, Prince Mutaib Hospital and child and maternity care hospital. [citation needed] There is a newly established Oncology Center and a Cardiac Center. [citation needed] A big ongoing project is the 1,000-bed Prince Muhammed Bin Abdulaziz Medical City which is under construction.
King Abdulaziz Medical City is a district general hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; it was established by a royal decree in May 1983. With a bed capacity of 690 beds, it provides all types of care to all National Guard soldiers and their families, starting from primary health care up to tertiary specialized care.
The King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences was formally established in 2005 as a result of the positive feedback from the postgraduate programs in various medical fields being offered by the National Guard Health Affairs since the mid-1980s. It is now the best university in Saudi Arabia to provide health staff.
The College of Medicine in King Saud University was established as the first medical college in the Kingdom in 1967. One year later, King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, became affiliated with the college and subsequently in 1981, King Khalid University Hospital and the new college building were established to become the main teaching campus and patient service facility.
Founded in 1956, KSMC is the oldest medical city in the Kingdom. It was inaugurated by King Saud bin Abdulaziz as the King Saud Medical Complex, and was at the time a 500-bed facility housing an emergency department and divisions in orthopedics, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and a radiology department, along with a laboratory, pharmacy, and immunization department.
Initially named "Gulf Hospital", it was renamed "King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam" by a Royal Decree. On 17 September 2005, King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz inaugurated the Hospital. In 2008, the hospital started to serve as a tertiary referral hospital offering specialized medical care in Oncology , Organ Transplant , Neurosciences , Cardiac ...
The King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital is designed to be a large health facility offering high quality specialized services for optometry, ophthalmology, eye surgery and medicine as well as being a regional research center in the area of ophthalmology. The hospital also has a cornea bank in which imported corneas are stored.