AMMAN — Prime Minister Jafar Hassan on Monday emphasised the importance of reopening the Amman Field Hospital, located next to Prince Hamzah Hospital, and highlighted the steps taken by the Ministry of Health to reactivate it after a shutdown lasting more than four years.

 

During a meeting at the ministry attended by the minister of health and other officials, the prime minister noted that restarting the facility will help accommodate the growing number of patients and visitors at Prince Hamzah Hospital, particularly in its emergency, intensive care, and kidney dialysis department

 

Hassan stressed the need to expedite government projects across various governorates within their designated timeframes, warning against delaying vital projects that serve citizens over minor procedural or technical hitche

 

He added that reopening the Amman Field Hospital is a qualitative addition to the Ministry of Health's healthcare system. It will support Prince Hamzah Hospital by increasing bed capacity and improving response times for emergency cases, he said, noting that the hospital has already begun receiving kidney dialysis patients and will become fully operational in the coming day

 

The Amman Field Hospital is equipped with 70 beds in the emergency department, 44 intensive care beds, and 40 kidney dialysis units, which will help reduce patient waiting times and improve the efficiency of medical service

 

The prime minister directed officials to make full use of the field hospitals established during the COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing their infrastructure, equipment, and operational capacities to support the public healthcare secto

 

For his part, Minister of Health Ibrahim Baddour said the ministry has implemented a package of health projects, including infrastructure upgrades, as well as the construction and expansion of several hospitals and healthcare centres across the Kingdom to boost the public sector's capacit

 

Baddour reviewed the ministry's future plans, which focus on upgrading service quality, accelerating digital transformation, and enhancing the readiness of the public healthcare system to meet current and future challenge

 

He added that adopting a unified national treatment protocol for cancer, implementing a protocol for acute myocardial infarction catheterization, and reorganizing outpatient clinic schedules at major hospitals are significant steps toward unifying medical procedures and improving service efficienc

 

The minister also pointed out that the plan to extend working hours and activate evening shifts at several comprehensive healthcare centres will ease the burden on emergency departments and improve citizens' access to healthcar

 

Over the past two years, the ministry has added 577 new beds, representing a nearly 10 per cent increase in the total number of beds across the Kingdom's hospitals, Baddour sai

 

Furthermore, the ministry has established 14 new healthcare centres, refurbished 49 others, and digitalized 153 facilities, which account for over 30 per cent of all digitalized health institutions. It has also set up 13 new medical warehouses, comprising roughly 40 per cent of the total number of warehouses, and automated 77 out of 147 services scheduled for digitisation over the next two years.