GE appointed technology provider for Kuwaiti healthcare projects.

GE Healthcare and its partner Advanced Technology Company (ATC) has been selected as a key technology provider by the Kuwait Ministry of Health (MoH). Some of GE's latest medical technologies will be deployed at specialized Kuwaiti facilities such as the new expansion of Dabous Cardiac Center and the 150-bed Sabah Al Ahmad Cardiac Center, which will both open in 2015.

The projects will be equipped with the company's Revolution CT, one of the latest CT technologies designed especially for high quality imaging of the heart.

GE Healthcare will also provide integrated oncology solutions including the Signa PET/MR system, for the new Kuwait Cancer Control Hospital (KCC), which will be the third biggest oncology center in the world, with 650 beds, due to open in 2017.

Elsewhere, the Sabah Al Ahmad Urology Center, a 100-bed hospital will adopt the GE Optima MR450w scanner. The Al Razi Hospital, due to open in the summer of 2015, will be equipped with digital radiography x-ray solutions from the American conglomerate.

The announcements of the deals were made at the Arab Health, a major healthcare exhibition taking place in Dubai, and forms part of the MoH plan to improve the country’s standards of diagnosing, staging and monitoring disease.

In 2010, Kuwait launched its USD 105 billion National Development Plan (Kuwait Vision 2030). One important objective is to modernize the healthcare infrastructure of the country in order to meet the needs of a growing population with a rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancer or cardiovascular disease, which are now considered to be the most pressing health issue the country is facing.


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