Sungai Petani Hospital Handed Over To Health Ministry

SUNGAI PETANI, July 23 (Bernama) -- The new Sungai Petani Hospital, which is now named Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital, was Sunday handed over to the Health Ministry after its construction was completed.
The hospital, on a 10-hectare land, would operate from November, and could provide better medical services with its new facilities.
At the hospital handing-over ceremony, the contractor THUB-BDB JV, a consortium company of TH Universal Builders Sdn Bhd and Bina Darul Aman Berhad, was represented by its Chairman Abdul Wahab Abdul Hamid who gave a symbolic key to the Works Ministry, represented by Public Works Department Deputy Director-General Datuk Mohamed Gading who later gave it to Health Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Datuk Dr Mohd Nasir Mohd Ashraf.
Sungai Petani Hospital Director Dr Harif Fadzillah Hashim said the hospital, built at a cost of RM450 million, was equipped with 498 beds. The hospital also practised the Total Hospital Information System.
The eight-storey hospital was also built with facilities like residential quarters, nurses' hostel, nursing college, visitors' lounge and recreational rooms.
The existing Sungai Petani Hospital would be converted into the Out Patient Department and the District Health Office once the new hospital beings operation.