{The government of Rwanda and Oshen Health Care Rwanda Ltd, a branch of Oshen Group from Angola, have signed long term agreement where the latter will handle the management of King Faisal Hospital (KFH).}
Following yesterday’s agreement, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), Ambassador Gatete Claver, said that the management of KFH is handed to a company of international repute which will invest in the facility and expand medical services offered for long term benefits.
“We want King Faisal Hospital to become internationally competitive to the extent of becoming a regional referral. We have been referring patients abroad for medical care but now we hope foreigners will come to Rwanda. We expect with minimum international referrals,” he said.
The CEO of Rwanda Development Board, Francis Gatare, said that Rwanda has, for long, been looking for a partner to make King Faisal Hospital an excellent medical services provider which Oshen Health Care has demonstrated to have the potential.
“We have not sold the hospital nor offered it to foreigners but rather a kind of collaboration aimed at boosting medical services delivery,” he said.
The government of Rwanda has also constituted an inspection team to ensure proper and articulate implementation of the agreement by both parties.
Alex Lifschitz, the deputy director of Oshen Health Care Rwanda Ltd who signed on behalf of his company said at the beginning much efforts will be directed towards investing in KFH and training Rwanda doctors.
“The basic investment in five years will be Euro 21 million. We target to take the hospital to international competitiveness through reforms, bringing in doctors and new management helping to attain envisaged goals,” he said.
He revealed a plan to work with competent insurance companies to create facilities of foreign referrals to King Faisal Hospital And acquire international certification offered by Joint Commission International (JCI) within five years.
Dr. Emille Rwamasirabo, the CEO of King Faisal Hospital has told IGIHE that Rwanda targets to have specialists in treating heart and cancer diseases within few years will be attained through training of Rwandan doctors expected to be offered by new investors.
He explained that Rwanda will save much money since it would require more than Euro 60,000 per year to invite a specialist doctors from abroad adding that the price would even double when the doctor is a specialist in aggravated diseases.
Oshen Health Care will establish a new management of King Faisal Hospital. Dr Rwamasirabo says that it is a new opportunity for him to find enough time to take care of patients as a specialist doctor.
Oshen Health Care will start managing King Faisal Hospital on August 1st, 2016.
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